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Cygnus olor (Gmelin, 1789) 
AphiaID: 159090

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Anseriformes (Order) > Anatidae (Family) > Cygnus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cygnus Bartram, 1791
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

basis of record: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details]

basis of record: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Albanian mjellma me xhungë  [details]
Bulgarian Ням лебед  [details]
Danish knopsvane  [details]
Dutch knobbelzwaan  [details]
English mute swan  [details]
French cygne tuberculé  [details]
German Höckerschwan  [details]
Hebrew ברבור מצוי  [details]
Italian cigno reale  [details]
Lithuanian gulbė nebylė  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Κοινός Κύκνος  [details]
Norwegian knoppsvane  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål knoppsvane  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk knoppsvane  [details]
Polish łabędź niemy  [details]
Romanian lebăda de vară  [details]
Russian лебедь-шипун  [details]
Scottish Gaelic eala bhalbh  [details]
Slovenian labod grbec  [details]
Spanish cisne vulgar  [details]
Swedish knölsvan  [details]
Turkish kugu  [details]
Turkish kuğu  [details]
Ukrainian Лебідь-шипун  [details]
Welsh alarch dof  [details]
Environment marine, fresh
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (851 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: aquatic vegetation, aquatic insects, fish and frogs [details]

Dimensions: Length: 60" (152 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America [details]

Habitat: marine waters (well-sheltered bays), open marshes, and ponds [details]

Importance: domesticated for food in Britian; feathers used for quills for writing, leathery web used for purses, and wing bones for making whistles [details]
Images 
Cygnus olor
Cygnus olor
added on 2011-09-08 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:05:06

Cygnus olor
Cygnus olor
added on 2013-03-20 - author: Inna Drapun ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:05:11

Cygnus olor
Cygnus olor
added on 2013-03-21 - author: Vitaly Giragosov ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:05:23

Cygnus olor
Cygnus olor
added on 2013-03-21 - author: Vitaly Giragosov ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:05:30

Cygnus olor
Cygnus olor
added on 2013-03-21 - author: Vitaly Giragosov ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:05:34

Cygnus olor
Cygnus olor
added on 2013-03-26 - author: Vitaly Giragosov ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:05:15
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159090
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  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). Cygnus olor (Gmelin, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159090 on 2013-05-24
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