Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-06
Leucophaeus
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).
Leucophaeus is a small genus of medium-sized New World gulls, most of which are dark in plumage, usually with white crescents above and below the eyes. They were placed in the genus Larus until recently.W CalCOFI holds 20 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2013, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 20
- observations
- 20
- records
- 1988–2013
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 1
- 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 · 2 taxa
- sp Leucophaeus atricilla13
- sp Leucophaeus pipixcan Franklin's Gull7
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
R
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:823984")
Python
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:823984'").df()JSONthis taxon's entry of the release record, verbatim
https://calcofi.io/species/itis-823984.json