WoRMS taxon details
Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin, 1789)
AphiaID: 159119
AphiaID: 159119
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Ciconiiformes (Order) > Ardeidae (Family) > Ixobrychus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ixobrychus Billberg, 1828 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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: 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (198 publications) To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 13" (33 cm); Wingspan: 17" (43 cm) [details] Distribution: Caribbean; North America [details] Reproduction: Breeds from New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, and south Oregon south to Brazil and Paraguay. Winters from the southern United States southward. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159119 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159119 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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