African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

MSBIAS taxon details

Motacilla Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

206855 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206855)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Motacillidae Vigors, 1825

Direct children (2)

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Species Motacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758
Species Motacilla cinerea Tunstall, 1771

Environment

terrestrial

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic citation

MSBIAS (2024). Motacilla Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206855 on 2024-05-06

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2024). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Motacilla Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206855 on 2024-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-08-27 11:40:11Z

created

Depew, Lorna

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2017-10-02 08:42:01Z

checked

Tasker, Mark

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

context source (MSBIAS) Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. (2023). 2019 The Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Wembury Bioblitz survey. The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH). , available online at https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php#details?tpc=010_71a02145fae5466afe757cd48b999ded [details]

basis of record Keith, S., E.K. Urban &Fry, C. H. (1992). The Birds of Africa, Volume IV. Academic Press, London. [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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