Cepphus
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137038 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis 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:176984")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:176984'").df()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 Cepphus columba Pigeon Guillemot55
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Alcidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Miocepphus blowi · source
- Photo · Mike Baird · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Cepphus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354909223
Elsewhere 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
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗