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Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825 
AphiaID: 159126

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Charadriidae (Family) > Charadrius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Charadrius Linnaeus, 1758
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: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch Amerikaanse bontbekplevier  [details]
English semipalmated plover  [details]
French pluvier semipalmé  [details]
German Amerikanischer Sandregenpfeifer  [details]
Hebrew חופמי  [details]
Lithuanian amerikinis kirlikas  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål amerikasandlo  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk amerikasandlo  [details]
Polish sieweczka skąpopłetwa  [details]
Slovenian ameriški komatni deževnik  [details]
Spanish chorlitejo semipalmeado  [details]
Turkish halkalı cılıbıt  [details]
Environment marine
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 (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (241 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: Length: 7 1/4" (18 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America; Northern Labrador to southern Nova Scotia in the summer [details]

Reproduction: Breeds from coastal Labrador, the arctic islands, and Alaska south along the coast to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and inland to northern Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, and British Columbia. Winters in South Carolina, northern Mexico and California to Argentina and Chile [details]
Images 
Charadrius semipalmatus
Charadrius semipalmatus
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-11 19:33:22

Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Plover
added on 2011-03-09 - author: Chardine, John
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-11 19:33:28
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159126
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). Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159126 on 2013-05-25
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