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Calidris maritima (Brünnich, 1764) 
AphiaID: 159052

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: 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: 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: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 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: 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 
Danish sortgrå ryle  [details]
Dutch paarse strandloper  [details]
English purple sandpiper  [details]
French bécasseau violet  [details]
German Meer-Strandläufer  [details]
Hebrew חופית  [details]
Lithuanian jūrinis bėgikas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Βραχοσκαλίδρα  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål fjæreplytt  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk fjæreplytt  [details]
Polish biegus morski  [details]
Scottish Gaelic gobadán cosbhuí  [details]
Slovenian morski prodnik  [details]
Spanish correlimos oscuro  [details]
Swedish skärsnäppa  [details]
Turkish mor kum kuşu  [details]
Ukrainian Побережник морський  [details]
Welsh pibydd du  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
IJzer Estuary [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 14 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: Length: 9" (23 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America; range extends from Newfoundland to northern Florida [details]

Reproduction: Breeds in Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic, also in Iceland, northern Europe, eastern Siberia, and the adjacent artic islands. Winters south on the Atlantic coast of North America to Maryland, in Iceland, the British Isles, and on the shores of the North and Baltic Seas. [details]
Images 
Calidris maritima Brunnich, 1764
Calidris maritima Brunnich, 1764
added on 2006-09-14 - author: Decleer Misjel
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:52:20

Purple sandpiper
Purple sandpiper
added on 2008-07-31 - author: Karl Van Ginderdeuren
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:52:32

Purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
Purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
added on 2012-01-26 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:52:37
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159052
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2010-09-09 08:18:14Z  changed  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
2011-04-27 09:01:37Z  changed  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Calidris maritima (Brünnich, 1764). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159052 on 2013-05-21
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