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Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776) 
AphiaID: 212601

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Scolopacidae (Family) > Calidris (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Calidris Merrem, 1804
Sources  basis of record: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Danish rødhalset ryle  [details]
Dutch roodkeelstrandloper  [details]
English red-necked stint  [details]
English rufous-necked stint  [details]
German Rotkehl-Strandläufer  [details]
Hebrew חופית  [details]
Lithuanian rudakaklis bėgikas  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål rødstrupesnipe  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk raudstrupesnipe  [details]
Polish biegus rdzawoszyi  [details]
Slovenian rdečevrati prodnik  [details]
Spanish correlimos cuellirojo  [details]
Swedish rödhalsad snäppa  [details]
Turkish kırmızı boyunlu kum kuşu  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kenya [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Length: 13-16 cm. Plumage: above grey; below white with partial grey band on chest; white superciliary line; transitional dress above dark with paler edges to feathers; wing-coverts grey, throat, foreneck and breast washed pale rufous becoming bright rufous in breeding birds. Immature like adult but brighter above. Bare parts: iris dark brown; bill black; feet and legs black, toes long. Habitat: tidal lagoons, mudflats, saltpans. Rare palearctic migrant. <389><391><393> [details]

Remark: Forms a super-species with C. minuta. [details]
Image 
Calidris ruficollis
Calidris ruficollis
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-27 14:27:11
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212601
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-07-17 10:53:12Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-09-02 12:38:17Z  changed  Depew, Lorna
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
2011-04-27 09:01:37Z  changed  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212601 on 2013-05-23
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