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Xema sabini

Sabine's Gull

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-06WoRMS 137167ITIS 176866key itis:176866
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2026-08-06: worms_id 137167 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted) 2026-08-05: worms_id 137167 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); WoRMS Larus sabini unaccepted -> Xema sabini; itis:176865 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:176866 (Xema sabini)

calcofi:seabirds

Sabine's gull is a small gull. It is usually treated as the only species placed in the genus Xema, though some authors include it with other gulls in a wide view of the genus Larus.W CalCOFI holds 231 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

231
observations
231
records
231
sampling events
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
Sabine's gull on Kigigak Island, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Lisa Hupp/USFWS
Photo · Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from Anchorage, United States · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:176866%22

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.

Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Xema
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Creagrus furcatus · source
  • Photo · Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service from Anchorage, United States · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Sabine's gull” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1363926589
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird

WikidataiNaturalistGBIFeBird

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 ↗