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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Arenaria

WoRMS 147430ITIS 176569key itis:176569
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2026-08-05: worms_id 147430 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Dysalatornis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Arenaria interpres

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 Arenaria
Photo · John Clough · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Turnstones are two bird species that constitute the genus Arenaria in the family Scolopacidae. They are closely related to calidrid sandpipers and might be considered members of the tribe Calidriini.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2005.R

4
observations
4
records
1987–2005
years
1
datasets

Observed in

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

Under it · 1 taxon

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176569")