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WoRMS taxon details
Limosa limosa (Linnaeus, 1758) AphiaID: 159035
| 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]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Albanian |
gjelaci bishtzi |
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Albanian |
gjelëza e madhe bishtzezë |
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Bulgarian |
Черноопашат крайбрежен бекас |
[details] |
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Danish |
stor kobbersneppe |
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Dutch |
grutto |
[details] |
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English |
black-tailed godwit |
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French |
barge à queue noire |
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German |
Uferschnepfe |
[details] |
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Hebrew |
לימוזה מצויה |
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Italian |
pittima reale |
[details] |
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Lithuanian |
griciukas |
[details] |
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Modern Greek (1453-) |
Ευρωπαϊκή Λιμόζα |
[details] |
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Norwegian |
svarthalespove |
[details] |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
svarthalespove |
[details] |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
svarthalespove |
[details] |
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Polish |
rycyk |
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Polish |
szlamnik rycyk |
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Romanian |
sitarul de mal |
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Russian |
большой веретенник |
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Scottish Gaelic |
guilbneach earrdhubh |
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Slovenian |
črnorepi kljunač |
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Spanish |
aguja colinegra |
[details] |
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Swedish |
rödspov |
[details] |
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Turkish |
camur cullugu |
[details] |
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Turkish |
çamur çulluğu |
[details] |
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Ukrainian |
Великий грицик |
[details] |
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Ukrainian |
Грицик великий |
[details] |
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Welsh |
rhostog gynffonddu |
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| 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]
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| 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
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| 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]
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| Images | |
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 |
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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 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159035 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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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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