WoRMS taxon details
Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 159094
AphiaID: 159094
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Anseriformes (Order) > Anatidae (Family) > Lophodytes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lophodytes Reichenbach, 1852 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [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] basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [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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| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (616 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (59 nucleotides; 16 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: aquatic insects, fish and crustaceans [details] Dimensions: Length: 18" (46 cm) [details] Distribution: North America; Bay of Fundy to Northern Florida [details] Habitat: forested wetlands, freshwater and brackish bays, estuaries, and tidal creeks and ponds [details] Importance: game species [details] Predators: man [details] Reproduction: Breeds from New Brunswick to northern British Columbia and south to Florida, Missouri, and Idaho avoiding the treeless plains as it nests in holes in trees. Winters from New England and British Columbia south to the Gulf States and Mexico. Eggs are laid between the first of April and the middle of June. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159094 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159094 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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