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Species · accepted · checked 2026-09-03

Sula granti

Nazca Booby

WoRMS 343958ITIS 726047key itis:726047
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2026-09-03: worms_id 343958 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted) 2026-09-04: worms_id 343958 matched by name "Sula granti" 2026-09-04: itis_id 726047 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Beth Reinke · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sula granti

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon.

Photograph of Sula granti
Photo · Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Nazca booby is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae, native to the eastern Pacific. First described by Walter Rothschild in 1902, it was long considered a subspecies of the masked booby until recognised as distinct genetically and behaviorally in 2002.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2019 and 2022.R

8
observations
8
records
8
sampling events
2019–2022
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.

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:726047%22