Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Phalaropus

WoRMS 137049ITIS 176733key itis:176733

2026-08-05: worms_id 137049 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Oscar G. Miranda · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Phalaropus lobatus

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 Phalaropus — Photo · Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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

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 Phalaropus fulicarius Red Phalarope2,446
sp Phalaropus lobatus Red-Necked Phalarope1,144

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:176733")

Phalaropus

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/.