| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Branta |
| 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]
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]
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Vernacular Names | | |
| Environment | | marine, fresh |
| Distribution | | Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (333 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Dimensions: Length: 27" (69 cm) [details]
Distribution: A casual of accidental visitor to northeast seaboard of North America. [details]
Reproduction: Breeds in eastern Greenland and the north of Europe and winters from Ireland to Poland. [details]
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| Images | |
Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) added on 2011-09-17 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:01:47 |
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Branta leucopsis added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:01:52 |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159177 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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| | | Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Branta leucopsis (Bechstein, 1803). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159177 on 2013-05-22 |
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