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Eschrichtius

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 137027ITIS 180520key worms:137027
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2026-08-05: itis_id 180520 via WoRMS external link

Eschrichtius is a genus of baleen whale containing two species: the gray whale and the extinct Akishima whale (E. akishimaensis).W CalCOFI holds 101 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2020.R

101
observations
101
records
1988–2020
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Eschrichtius
Photo · Marisol González · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:137027")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Eschrichtiidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗