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WoRMS taxon details
Mergus serrator Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 159098
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Mergus |
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original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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: 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]
additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Albanian |
zhytësi i mesëm me çallmë |
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Bulgarian |
Среден нирец |
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Danish |
toppet skallesluger |
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Dutch |
middelste zaagbek |
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English |
red-breasted merganser |
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French |
harle huppé |
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German |
Mittelsäger |
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Hebrew |
מרגון בינוני |
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Italian |
smergo minore |
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Lithuanian |
vidutinis dančiasnapis |
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Modern Greek (1453-) |
Θαλασσοπρίστης |
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Norwegian |
siland |
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Norwegian Bokmål |
siland |
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Norwegian Nynorsk |
siland |
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Polish |
szlachar |
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Polish |
tracz długodzioby |
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Romanian |
ferestraş moţat |
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Romanian |
ferestraşul moţat |
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Russian |
длинноносый |
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Russian |
Длинноносый крохаль |
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Russian |
или морской крохаль |
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Scottish Gaelic |
síolta rua |
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Slovenian |
veliki žagar |
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Spanish |
serreta mediana |
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Swedish |
småskrake |
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Turkish |
tarakdis |
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Turkish |
tarakdiş |
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Ukrainian |
Крех середній |
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Ukrainian |
Крех середній (Крех довгоносий) |
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Ukrainian |
Середній крех |
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Welsh |
hwyaden frongoch |
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| Environment | | marine, fresh |
| Distribution | | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [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]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1088 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (161 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Dimensions: Length: 23" (58 cm) [details]
Distribution: North America; Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico [details]
Reproduction: Breeds in North America from Greenland and Baffin Island to southern Alaska and south to New England, southern Ontario, and northern British Columbia. Winters from New Brunswick, the Great Lakes, and Alaska, south to Florida, the Gulf States, and northern Mexico. Nests are close to the ground and are usually near salt water. Eggs are laid from middle June to late July (5-9 young). [details]
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| Images | |
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) added on 2011-09-15 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-16 09:00:16 |
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Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) added on 2011-09-17 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-16 09:00:22 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159098 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Mergus serrator Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159098 on 2013-05-18 |
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