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Limosa limosa (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 159035

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
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian gjelaci bishtzi  [details]
Albanian gjelëza e madhe bishtzezë  [details]
Bulgarian Черноопашат крайбрежен бекас  [details]
Danish stor kobbersneppe  [details]
Dutch grutto  [details]
English black-tailed godwit  [details]
French barge à queue noire  [details]
German Uferschnepfe  [details]
Hebrew לימוזה מצויה  [details]
Italian pittima reale  [details]
Lithuanian griciukas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Ευρωπαϊκή Λιμόζα  [details]
Norwegian svarthalespove  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål svarthalespove  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk svarthalespove  [details]
Polish rycyk  [details]
Polish szlamnik rycyk  [details]
Romanian sitarul de mal  [details]
Russian большой веретенник  [details]
Scottish Gaelic guilbneach earrdhubh  [details]
Slovenian črnorepi kljunač  [details]
Spanish aguja colinegra  [details]
Swedish rödspov  [details]
Turkish camur cullugu  [details]
Turkish çamur çulluğu  [details]
Ukrainian Великий грицик  [details]
Ukrainian Грицик великий  [details]
Welsh rhostog gynffonddu  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Djibouti [details]
Eritrea [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Het Zwin [details]
IJzer Estuary [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kenya [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (292 publications)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 15 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Length: male 40-41 cm, female 50 cm. Plumage: above plain grey-brown; below whitish; head, neck and breast light brownish; pale superciliary line; white bar with black trailing edge in spread wing; rump white, tail band black; breeding bird mottled brownish above, head and chest reddish chestnut, flanks barred black, belly whitish. Bare parts: iris hazel to dark brown; bill long and straight, blackish with basal third or more orange-pink to pinkish; feet and legs greyish- or bluish-grey to blackish. Habitat: tidal mudflats and inland waters. Palearctic migrant. <389><391><393> [details]

Distribution: accidental shore bird from Eurasia, reported in Newfoundland [details]
Images 
Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa)
Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa)
added on 2011-09-16 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-09 08:57:56

Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
added on 2012-11-02 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-09 08:58:03
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159035
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 limosa (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159035 on 2013-05-26
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