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WoRMS taxon details
Anas penelope Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 159168
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Anas Linnaeus, 1758 |
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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: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London. [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 | | |
| Environment | | marine, fresh |
| Distribution | | Djibouti [details]
Eritrea [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [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 (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (630 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (97 nucleotides; 77 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: Length: 45-51 cm. Plumage: body vermiculated grey; head chestnut with buffy-cream forehead and crown and pinkish chest; flight feathers , tail and undertail coverts black with a white line dividing undertail coverts from grey flanks; speculum green and black. Eclipse male and female greyish or rufous brown (male with rich chestnut breast and sides) with paler edges to feathers; head paler with black around eyes; belly white and prominent white forewing in all plumages. Immature like female. Bare parts: iris brown; bill pale blue grey with darker edges and tip; feet and legs dark grey. Habitat: salt marshes, tidal flats, estuaries, or lagoons; also inland waters; space and good visibility required.<388><391> [details]
Dimensions: Length: 20" (51 cm) [details]
Distribution: North America; regular visitor to the Atlantic Provinces [details]
Reproduction: Breeds in Eurasia from Iceland to eastern Asia and winters south to central Africa, southern Asia, and the East Indies. [details]
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Wigeon (Anas penelope) added on 2013-04-18 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 08:56:29 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159168 |
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| | | Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Anas penelope Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159168 on 2013-06-19 |
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