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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Eschrichtiidae

WoRMS 136981ITIS 180519key worms:136981
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180519 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Agaphelus bonaerensis

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 Eschrichtiidae
Photo · Mo Singh · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale with a single extant species, the gray whale, as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (Miocene), Glaucabalaena and Eschrichtioides (Pliocene) from Italy, and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina.W CalCOFI holds 101 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2020.R

101
observations
101
records
1988–2020
years
1
datasets

Observed in

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

Under it · 1 taxon

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 == "worms:136981")