WoRMS taxon details
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 148791
AphiaID: 148791
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Anseriformes (Order) > Anatidae (Family) > Anas (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Anas Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details] additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p. [details] additional source: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] additional source: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [details] additional source: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (71 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (423 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (312372 nucleotides; 18132 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: vegetation, insects, worms, gastropods, arthropods, grains [details] Dimensions: Length: 23" (58 cm) [details] Distribution: North America; range extends from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico [details] Habitat: coastal [details] Importance: game species [details] Reproduction: Breeds in Europe and Asia from the Arctic Circle south to the Medditerranean, Mongolia, and Japan, and winters south to Africa and southern Asia. In North America, it Breeds sporadically east of western Ontario. It Breeds westward north to Mackenzie and Alaska and south to Virginia, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico. In winter it is found from its Breeding range south to Central America and the West Indies. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148791 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=148791 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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