Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Melanitta

WoRMS 137002ITIS 175162key itis:175162

2026-08-05: worms_id 137002 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Gabriela Palomo-Munoz · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Melanitta deglandi

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Melanitta — Photo · Bjoern Rost · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The scoters are stocky seaducks in the genus Melanitta. The drakes are mostly black and have swollen bills, the females are brown.W CalCOFI holds 122 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

122
observations: 122
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets: 2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

sp Melanitta perspicillata Surf Scoter115
sp Melanitta nigra Black Scoter7

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:175162")

Melanitta

Observed in

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.