Fratercula
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137039 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water.W CalCOFI holds 13 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2018, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 13
- observations
- 13
- records
- 1988–2018
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Fratercula cirrhata most observed, 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:177024")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:177024'").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 2 taxa · Fratercula cirrhata most observed
- sp Fratercula cirrhata Tufted Puffin11
- sp Fratercula corniculata Horned Puffin2
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Alcidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · albertonykus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Fratercula arctica · source
- Photo · Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Puffin” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370586581
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 ↗