Aethia

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 343585ITIS 177018key itis:177018

2026-08-05: worms_id 343585 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

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

Photo · L. Lauber · Public domain · commons

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 inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:177018")

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 Aethia psittacula Parakeet Auklet17

Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Alcidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Miocepphus blowi · source
Photo · L. Lauber · Public domain · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Aethia” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1300006352

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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

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