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WoRMS taxon details
Recurvirostra avosetta Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 212721
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Recurvirostra Linnaeus, 1758 |
| 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: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]
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Vernacular Names | | |
| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Djibouti [details]
Eritrea [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kenya [details]
Mozambique [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Tanzania [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (117 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Note | |
Description: Length: 43-46 cm. Plumage: white with black crown, wing coverts, scapulars and wing-tips; black may become brownish with wear. Immature brown replaces black of adults, buff tinge to white feathers. Bare parts: iris male red, female brown; bill black; feet and legs blue-grey to grey. Habitat: shallow waters of lagoons, estuaries, seashores and inland water bodies. Resident; breeds in Africa. <389><391><393> [details]
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| Images | |
Recurvirostra avosetta added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: not checked |
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Recurvirostra avosetta added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: not checked |
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avocet added on 2009-04-10 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: not checked |
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Kluut added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: not checked |
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Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) added on 2011-09-16 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212721 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
| Date | action | by |
| 1998-08-22 05:35:27Z | created | Depew, Lorna |
| 2011-04-08 06:18:06Z | checked | Adriaens, Peter |
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| | | Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Recurvirostra avosetta Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212721 on 2013-06-19 |
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