Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Aethia

WoRMS 343585ITIS 177018key itis:177018

2026-08-05: worms_id 343585 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).

Whiskered Auklet (Aethia pygmaea) — Photo · L. Lauber · Public domain · commons

Aethia is a genus of four small (85–300g) auklets endemic to the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk and among some of North America's most abundant seabirds. The relationships between the four true auklets remains unclear.W CalCOFI holds 17 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1991 and 2022.R

17
observations: 17
records: 1991–2022
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 Aethia psittacula Parakeet Auklet17

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:177018")

Aethia

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/.