WoRMS taxon details
Anas rubripes Brewster, 1902
AphiaID: 159170
AphiaID: 159170
| 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 |
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: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [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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| 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 (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (231 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (79 nucleotides; 62 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: seeds and vegetative parts of aquatic plants and crop plants, invertebrates (insects, molluscs, crustaceans) [details] Dimensions: Length: 23" (58 cm) [details] Distribution: Caribbean, North America; range extends from Northern Labrador to southern North Carolina [details] Habitat: bays, estuaries, marches, lagoons, and lakes [details] Importance: game species [details] Predators: man [details] Reproduction: Breeds from Labrador to northern Manitoba and south to North Carolina, Ohio, and North Dakota. Winters from Newfoundland and southern Ontariosouth to Florida and Texas. Most nests are on the ground but a few are found in trees every year. Eggs are laid middle March to late June. [details] Taxonomy: Most common duck in New Brunswick [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159170 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Anas rubripes Brewster, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159170 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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