WoRMS taxon details
Buteo platypterus (Vieillot, 1823)
AphiaID: 159370
AphiaID: 159370
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Falconiformes (Order) > Accipitridae (Family) > Buteo (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Buteo Lacepede, 1799 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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: 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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| Environment | |||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (301 publications) To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 15 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 16" (41 cm); Wingspan: 34" (86 cm) [details] Distribution: Caribbean; North America; Gulf of St. Lawrence Region to northern Florida [details] Reproduction: Breeds from New Brunswick to Alberta east of the Rockies and south to Florida, the Gulf States, and the West Indies. Winters from southern Florida and Mexico south to Brazil and Peru, and casually farther north. Eggs are laid mid May to late June. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159370 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Buteo platypterus (Vieillot, 1823). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159370 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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