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Mergus serrator Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 159098

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Anseriformes (Order) > Anatidae (Family) > Mergus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mergus
Sources  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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian zhytësi i mesëm me çallmë  [details]
Bulgarian Среден нирец  [details]
Danish toppet skallesluger  [details]
Dutch middelste zaagbek  [details]
English red-breasted merganser  [details]
French harle huppé  [details]
German Mittelsäger  [details]
Hebrew מרגון בינוני  [details]
Italian smergo minore  [details]
Lithuanian vidutinis dančiasnapis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Θαλασσοπρίστης  [details]
Norwegian siland  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål siland  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk siland  [details]
Polish szlachar  [details]
Polish tracz długodzioby  [details]
Romanian ferestraş moţat  [details]
Romanian ferestraşul moţat  [details]
Russian длинноносый  [details]
Russian Длинноносый крохаль  [details]
Russian или морской крохаль  [details]
Scottish Gaelic síolta rua  [details]
Slovenian veliki žagar  [details]
Spanish serreta mediana  [details]
Swedish småskrake  [details]
Turkish tarakdis  [details]
Turkish tarakdiş  [details]
Ukrainian Крех середній  [details]
Ukrainian Крех середній (Крех довгоносий)  [details]
Ukrainian Середній крех  [details]
Welsh hwyaden frongoch  [details]
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]
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
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]
Images 
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
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

Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
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
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159098
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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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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