WoRMS taxon details
Himantopus mexicanus (Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 159131
AphiaID: 159131
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Recurvirostridae (Family) > Himantopus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Himantopus Brisson, 1760 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, fresh | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (442 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 26 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 14" (36 cm) [details] Distribution: North America; range generally extends from Cape Cod to Peru; it is a rare visitor north of this range [details] Reproduction: Breeds from South Carolina and Florida on the east coast and southern Saskatchewan and Oregon south through the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America to Brazil and Peru. Winters from the Gulf States, Texas, and central California south to the limit of the Breeding range in South America. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159131 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Himantopus mexicanus (Müller, 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159131 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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