Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Uria

WoRMS 137041ITIS 176973key itis:176973

2026-08-05: worms_id 137041 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Carbo · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Uria aalge

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).

Photograph of Uria — Photo · Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Uria is a genus of seabirds in the auk family known in Europe as guillemots, and in North America as murres. These are medium-sized birds with mainly brown or black plumage in the breeding season.W CalCOFI holds 926 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

926
observations: 926
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

sp Uria aalge Common Murre926

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:176973")

Uria

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.