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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Phoebastria

WoRMS 343625ITIS 553521key itis:553521
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2026-08-05: worms_id 343625 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · juan.jeri.vidal · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Phoebastria irrorata

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).

Photograph of Phoebastria
Photo · John Sterling · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The North Pacific albatrosses are large seabirds from the genus Phoebastria in the albatross family. They are the most tropical of the albatrosses, with two species nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one on sub-tropical islands south of Japan, and one nesting on the equator.W CalCOFI holds 2,174 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 3 taxa under it.R

2,174
observations
2,174
records
1987–2022
years
1
datasets
3
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 3 taxa

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:553521")