The Coronado Islands have the largest known colony of the rare Xantus's Murrelet.
It resembles the closely related Xantus's Murrelet, with which it shares the distinction of being the most southerly living of all the auk species.
It is also home to the largest breeding colony for Xantus's Murrelet, a threatened seabird species.
The bird is named for Federico Craveri (1815–1890), an Italian chemist and meteorologist who was a professor at the National Museum in Mexico City, then later at University of Turin in the city of his birth.
•
Craveri's Murrelet feeds far out at sea on larval fish such as herring, rockfish, and lanternfish.
The Fragile Rainbow Star or Astrometis sertulifera (Xantus, 1860), is the only uncontested species of sea star in the genus Astrometis.
The Kittlitz's Murrelet mostly breeds and lives in the coastal areas of Alaska, both on the mainland around Prince William Sound, the Kenai Peninsula, sparsely up the west coast and along the Aleutian Islands.
•
The common name of this species commemorates the German zoologist Heinrich von Kittlitz, who first collected this species.
Scripps's Murrelet (Synthliboramphus scrippsi) is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean.