Laridae
gulls
i
2026-08-05: worms_id 136988 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
Laridae is a family of seabirds in the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns, noddies, and skimmers. It includes 105 species arranged into 23 genera.W CalCOFI holds 17,798 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 23 taxa under it.R
- 17,798
- observations
- 17,798
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 20
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 10 taxa · Larus most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176802")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176802'").df()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 10 taxa · Larus most observed
- G Larus Hybrid Gull14,811
- G Thalasseus crested terns918
- G Rissa834
- G Chroicocephalus643
- G Xema231
- G Sterna202
- G Hydroprogne95
- G Sternula42
- G Leucophaeus20
- G Anous2
Lineage 9 ranks · Animalia to Charadriiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Creagrus furcatus · source
- Photo · James Weaver · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Laridae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369036985
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗