Anous

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 206812ITIS 176940key itis:176940

2026-08-05: worms_id 206812 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

The noddies, forming the genus Anous, are a genus of seabirds in family Laridae which also contains the gulls, terns and skimmers. The genus contains five species.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 1996.R

2
observations: 2
records: 1996
years: 1
datasets

Photo · ian_mcallan · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:176940")

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 1 taxon

sp Anous stolidus Brown Noddy2

Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Laridae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Cristian Gutierrez-Ibanez · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Anous minutus worcesteri · source
Photo · ian_mcallan · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Anous” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1350549409

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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

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