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Synthliboramphus

Xantus's / Craveri's Murrelet

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 343632ITIS 177006key itis:177006
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2026-08-05: worms_id 343632 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

calcofi:seabirds

Synthliboramphus is a small genus of seabirds in the auk family from the North Pacific. The genus name Synthliboramphus is from Ancient Greek sunthlibo, "to compress", and rhamphos, "bill".W CalCOFI holds 441 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 5 taxa under it.R

441
observations
441
records
39
sampling events
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
4
species under it
Photograph of Synthliboramphus
Photo · Bridget Spencer · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • 39 obs39 events2002–2022
    name used: Synthliboramphus craveri Xantus's / Craveri's Murrelet · code XCMU synonym

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:177006%22

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 4 taxa · Synthliboramphus hypoleucus most observed
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Alcidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗