Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05
Alcidae
auks
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).
Auks or alcids are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets.W CalCOFI holds 4,954 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 13 taxa under it.R
- 4,954
- observations
- 4,954
- records
- 1987–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 12
- 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 · 8 taxa
- G Ptychoramphus2,296
- G Cerorhinca1,202
- G Uria926
- G Synthliboramphus Xantus's / Craveri's Murrelet441
- G Cepphus55
- G Aethia17
- G Fratercula13
- G Brachyramphus4
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:176967")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176967'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/itis-176967.json