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Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 159034

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Scolopacidae (Family) > Limosa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Limosa Brisson, 1760
Synonymised
taxa		  Limosa laponica (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
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: 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: 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]

from synonym: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Albanian gjelëza e madhe bishtvijëzuar  [details]
Bulgarian Късоопашат крайбрежен бекас  [details]
Danish lille kobbersneppe  [details]
Dutch rosse grutto  [details]
English bar-tailed godwit  [details]
French barge rousse  [details]
German Pfuhlschnepfe  [details]
Hebrew לימוזה חומת-בטן  [details]
Italian pittima minore  [details]
Lithuanian Laplandinis griciukas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Θαλασσολιμόζα  [details]
Norwegian lappspove  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål lappspove  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk lappspove  [details]
Polish szlamik  [details]
Polish szlamnik rdzawy  [details]
Romanian sitarul cel mai nordic  [details]
Romanian sitarul de mal nordic  [details]
Russian малый веретенник  [details]
Scottish Gaelic guilbneach stríocearrach  [details]
Slovenian progastorepi kljunač  [details]
Spanish aguja colipinta  [details]
Swedish myrspov  [details]
Turkish kiyi camur cullugu  [details]
Turkish kıyı çamur çulluğu  [details]
Ukrainian Грицик малий  [details]
Ukrainian Малий грицик  [details]
Welsh rhostog gynffonfraith  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Djibouti (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eritrea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Zeeschelde [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (36 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (480 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: accidental shore bird from Eurasia, reported in Newfoundland [details]
Images 
Limosa lapponica
Limosa lapponica
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:33:14

Limosa lapponica
Limosa lapponica
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:33:19

Rosse grutto
Rosse grutto
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:33:24

Limosa lapponica
Limosa lapponica
added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:33:29

Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica)
added on 2012-11-02 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:33:49
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159034
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159034 on 2013-05-20
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