WoRMS taxon details
Phoenicopterus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 206327
AphiaID: 206327
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Phoenicopteriformes (Order) > Phoenicopteridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Phoenicopteridae | |||||||||||||
| 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: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London. [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, 1758 Species Phoenicopterus minor Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798 accepted as Phoeniconaias minor (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798) Species Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas, 1811 accepted as Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Size: largest of flamingoes, up to 1.6 m tall. Plumage: white, pink, bright red and black. Other details: bill with shallow keel; upper mandible covers but doesn't fit closely into the lower. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206327 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Phoenicopterus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206327 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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