WoRMS taxon details
Fulica americana Gmelin, 1789
AphiaID: 159007
AphiaID: 159007
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Gruiformes (Order) > Rallidae (Family) > Fulica (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Fulica Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [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: 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] 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] basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [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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| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (902 publications) To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 18 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: omnivorious species; eat small aquatic animals, insects and vegetation [details] Dimensions: Length: 15 1/2" (39 cm) [details] Distribution: Caribbean; North America; range extends from Canada to Ecuador [details] Habitat: freshwater lakes and ponds and marshes [details] Reproduction: Breeds from New Brunswick to British Columbia and south to northern South America; also in the Hawaiian Islands. Winters in southern Ontario, and on both coasts from New Brunswick and British Columbia southward [details] Taxonomy: even though they are able to seek out their own food, they are known to steal food from other birds [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Fulica americana Gmelin, 1789. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159007 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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