WoRMS taxon details
Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802
AphiaID: 212594
AphiaID: 212594
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Pelecaniformes (Order) > Phaethontidae (Family) > Phaethon (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Phaethon Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London. [details] additional source: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Phaethon lepturus fulvus Brandt, 1838 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Circum-equitorial [details] Comores [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (80 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 28 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Length: (excluding tail streamers) 38-43 cm. Colour: adult white with wing-tip, diagonal bar on the wing coverts, crescent through eye and some flank feathers black; bill yellow; legs yellow, feet black; immature white heavily barred black above and no streamers. Habitat: tropical seas near islands and at times off shore near mainland, not seen far out at sea. (<313><316><318>). Distribution: open ocean off the whole eastern african coast. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212594 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212594 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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