Order · checked 2026-08-05

Phaethontiformes

ITIS 823962key itis:823962

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Phaethon rubricauda

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 Phaethontiformes — Photo · kansasphoto · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Phaethontiformes are an order of birds. They contain one extant family, the tropicbirds (Phaethontidae), and one extinct family Prophaethontidae from the early Cenozoic.W CalCOFI holds 197 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

197
observations: 197
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets: 2
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 · 1 taxon

F Phaethontidae tropicbirds197

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:823962")

Phaethontiformes

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/.