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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ptychoramphus aleuticus

Cassin's Auklet

WoRMS 344115ITIS 177013key itis:177013
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2026-08-05: worms_id 344115 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Miocepphus blowi
Cassin's Auklet23 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

Cassin's auklet (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) at night. Photo taken in 2003 on Farallon Islands.
Photo · Sabine's Sunbird · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Cassin's auklet is a small, chunky seabird that ranges widely in the North Pacific. It is the only species placed in the genus Ptychoramphus.W CalCOFI holds 2,296 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

2,296
observations
2,296
records
2,296
sampling events
1987–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 2,296 obs · 2,296 events · 1987–2022
    name used: Ptychoramphus aleuticus Cassin's Auklet · code CAAU

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

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/.

Explorerdb-query
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:177013%22