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WoRMS taxon details
Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758) AphiaID: 159037
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Numenius Moehring, 1758 |
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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: 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]
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Djibouti [details]
Eritrea [details]
Het Zwin [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [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]
Zeeschelde [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (605 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: Length: 53-59 cm. Plumage: above, head neck and breast streaked brown on buff; belly and rump white; flanks with brown streaking. Immature like adult. Bare parts: iris brown; bill brown with pinkish base, extremely long (three times length of head) and strongly decurved; immature with shorter bill; feet and legs greenish-, pinkish- or bluish-grey. Habitat: coastal mudflats, seashores, estuaries and inland waters. Palearctic migrant, a few may oversummer. <389><391><393> [details]
Distribution: accidental shore bird from Eurasia, reported in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland [details]
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| Images | |
Numenius arquata added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:35:20 |
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Numenius arquata added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:35:26 |
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Wulp added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:35:35 |
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Wulp added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:35:47 |
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Curlew (Numenius arquata) added on 2011-09-16 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: not checked |
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Curlew (Numenius arquata) added on 2011-10-02 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:35:52 |
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Numenius arquata added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:35:41 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159037 |
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| | | Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159037 on 2013-05-20 |
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