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Branta leucopsis (Bechstein, 1803) 
AphiaID: 159177

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Anseriformes (Order) > Anatidae (Family) > Branta (Genus)
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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish bramgås  [details]
Dutch brandgans  [details]
English barnacle goose  [details]
French bernache nonnette  [details]
German Weißwangengans  [details]
Hebrew ברנטה  [details]
Italian oca facciabianca  [details]
Lithuanian baltaskruostė berniklė  [details]
Norwegian hvitkinngås  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål hvitkinngås  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk kvitkinngås  [details]
Polish bernikla białolica  [details]
Russian белощёкая казарка  [details]
Scottish Gaelic gé ghiúrainn  [details]
Slovenian belolična gos  [details]
Spanish barnacla cariblanca  [details]
Swedish vitkindad gås  [details]
Turkish akyanakli kaz  [details]
Turkish akyanaklı kaz  [details]
Ukrainian Казарка білощок  [details]
Ukrainian Казарка білощока  [details]
Welsh gwydd wyran  [details]
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]
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
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]
Images 
Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis)
Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis)
added on 2011-09-17 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:01:47

Branta leucopsis
Branta leucopsis
added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:01:52
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159177
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
2011-04-27 09:01:37Z  changed  Adriaens, Peter
  
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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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