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Anas penelope Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 159168

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

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian kryekuqja e madhe  [details]
Albanian rosa e detit  [details]
Albanian rosa kokëmadhe  [details]
Albanian rosa kryekuqe  [details]
Danish pibeand  [details]
Dutch smient  [details]
English Eurasian wigeon  [details]
English widgeon  [details]
English wigeon  [details]
French canard siffleur  [details]
German Pfeifente  [details]
Hebrew ברווז צהוב-מצח  [details]
Italian fischione  [details]
Lithuanian cyplė  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Ευρωπαϊκό Σφυριχτάρι  [details]
Norwegian brunnakke  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål brunnakke  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk brunnakke  [details]
Polish świstun  [details]
Romanian raţa fluierătoare  [details]
Romanian raţă fluierătoare  [details]
Russian или свищ  [details]
Russian свистун  [details]
Russian свияга  [details]
Russian свиязь  [details]
Scottish Gaelic lacha rua  [details]
Slovenian žvižgavka  [details]
Spanish silbón europeo  [details]
Swedish bläsand  [details]
Turkish fivu  [details]
Ukrainian Свищ  [details]
Welsh chwiwell  [details]
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]
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
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]
Image 
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
added on 2013-04-18 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 08:56:29
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159168
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). 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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