WoRMS taxon details
Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763)
AphiaID: 159049
AphiaID: 159049
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Scolopacidae (Family) > Calidris (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Calidris Merrem, 1804 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: 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] additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] additional source: 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] additional source: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 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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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] IJzer Estuary [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [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 (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Length: 18-20 cm. Plumage: grey above with paler edges to feathers; face and sides of chest mottled grey; below and superciliary stripe white; upper tail-coverts all white; white wing-stripe; breeding bird above dark mottled chestnut and buff; below deep reddish chestnut; around bill and crissum white; transitional bird mottled chestnut below. Immature dark above with paler edges to feathers; pale cinnamon wash on breast. Bare parts: iris dark brown; bill longish and decurved near tip, black; feet and legs relatively long, greyish to olive brown. Habitat: sandy beaches, mudflats, coral shores; some inland pans and lakes. Palearctic migrant. <389><391><393> [details] Dimensions: Length: 8 1/2" (22 cm) [details] Distribution: North America; Oceania [details] Reproduction: Breeds in northern Siberia and winters from the British Isles and southern Eurasia south to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159049 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Calidris ferruginea (Pontoppidan, 1763). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159049 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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