WoRMS taxon details
Megaceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 159001
AphiaID: 159001
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Coraciiformes (Order) > Alcedinidae (Family) > Megaceryle (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Megaceryle Kaup, 1848 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758) (Basionym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | |||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (76 publications) To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Reproduction: Breeds from Newfoundland and Labrador to Alaska and south throughout most of the United States. Winters from southern Canada to Central America and the West Indies. Nest is a chamber at the end of a long burrow dug in a suitable bank at the side of a lake or stream. Eggs are laid from late May to mid June. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159001 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Megaceryle alcyon (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159001 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||||||||
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