Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Laridae
gulls
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).
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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 10 taxa
- 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
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176802")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176802'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/itis-176802.json