WoRMS taxon details
Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1813
AphiaID: 159077
AphiaID: 159077
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Laridae (Family) > Larus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Larus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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 | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North America [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (86 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 14 1/2" (37 cm); Wingspan: 36" (91 cm) [details] Distribution: North America; very rare but regular visitor to the Atlantic Coast [details] Habitat: inland [details] Reproduction: Breeds in the Prairie Provinces and south to Iowa, South Dakota, Utah, and Oregon. Winters along the Gulf coast of the United States, and on the Pacific south to Chile. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159077 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1813. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159077 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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