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Phalaropus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137049ITIS 176733key itis:176733
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137049 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

A phalarope is any of three living species of slender-necked shorebirds in the genus Phalaropus of the bird family Scolopacidae.W CalCOFI holds 3,590 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

3,590
observations
3,590
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
Photograph of Phalaropus
Photo · Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Phalaropus fulicarius most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176733")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Under it 2 taxa · Phalaropus fulicarius most observed
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Scolopacidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗