WoRMS taxon details
Sula dactylatra Lesson, 1831
AphiaID: 212599
AphiaID: 212599
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Pelecaniformes (Order) > Sulidae (Family) > Sula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Sula Brisson, 1760 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 Sula dactylatra tasmani van Tets, Meredith, Fullagar & Davidson, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Kenya [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Somalia [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (97 nucleotides; 36 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Length: 81-92 cm. Colour: adult white with black flight feathers and tail; facial and gular skin blackish to dark blue-grey; bill orange to yellow-green with black at base; legs and feet grey; eye yellow; immature dark grey-brown above with a dark brown head and white collar; underside of wings white with broad dark trailing edge and dark band parallel to leading edge; bill olive to pale horn. Habitat: open ocean. Distribution: Palaeartic migrant (<313><316><318>) [details] Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212599 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Sula dactylatra Lesson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212599 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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