Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cepphus

WoRMS 137038ITIS 176984key itis:176984

2026-08-05: worms_id 137038 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Miocepphus blowi

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 Cepphus — Photo · Mike Baird · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Cepphus is a genus of seabirds in the auk family also referred to as guillemots by association with the related genus Uria, or tysties, from the Old Norse name for C. grylle.W CalCOFI holds 55 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2019.R

55
observations: 55
records: 1987–2019
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 Cepphus columba Pigeon Guillemot55

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:176984")

Cepphus

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/.