Aethia

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iAethia
Aethia pygmaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Aethia
Merrem, 1788
Species

Aethia cristatella
Aethia psittacula
Aethia pusilla
Aethia pygmaea

Aethia is a genus of auklets. It occurs only in the North Pacific and adjacent waters, mainly in the Bering Strait region. However, there are one or two fossil species which lived in the area of today's California during the Late Miocene, some 5 million years ago: Aethia rossmoori (Monterrey Formation of Orange County) and an undescribed taxon tentatively placed in this genus, ?Aethia sp.