WoRMS taxon details
Rynchops Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 206447
AphiaID: 206447
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Rynchopidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Rynchopidae | ||||||||||
| 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: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Rynchops albicollis Swainson, 1838 Species Rynchops flavirostris Vieillot, 1816 Species Rynchops niger Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Size: large. Distinguishing characters: lower mandible much longer than upper, striated and less than 1 mm wide along most of its length; flexible toward tip; feed by skimming surface of water with lower mandible slicing through water surface. Pupil has catlike vertical slit in bright light. <389> [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206447 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Rynchops Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206447 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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