Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 137074

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Aves > Anseriformes > Anatidae > Somateria

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Somateria
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: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details] additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.  [details] additional source: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] additional source: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details] additional source: Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (Ed.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp. [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: 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] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Albanian pata e detit  [details] Bulgarian Обикновена гага  [details] Danish ederfugl  [details] Dutch eider  [details] Dutch eidereend  [details] English common eider  [details] English eider  [details] English eider duck  [details] French eider à duvet  [details] French eider commun  [details] German Eiderente  [details] Icelandic aedarfugl  [details] Icelandic aedur  [details] Italian edredone  [details] Lithuanian paprastoji gaga  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Κοινή Πουπουλόπαπια  [details] Norwegian Ærfugl  [details] Norwegian Bokmål ærfugl  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk ærfugl  [details] Polish edredon  [details] Romanian eiderul  [details] Russian обыкновенная гага  [details] Slovenian gaga  [details] Spanish eider común  [details] Swedish ejder  [details] Turkish pufla kazi  [details] Turkish pufla kazı  [details] Ukrainian Гага звичайна  [details] Ukrainian Звичайна гага  [details] Ukrainian пухівка  [details] Ukrainian Пухівка (Звичайна гага)  [details] Welsh hwyaden fwythblu  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Iceland [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (830 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1212 nucleotides; 1003 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS
Images		Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus, 1758) added on 2006-09-14 - author: VLIZ (Decleer) qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:44:45 Somateria mollissima added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:44:58 Eidereend added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:45:11 Somateria mollissima - common eider added on 2011-02-19 - author: Nozères, Claude qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:45:19 Common Eider added on 2011-03-10 - author: Chardine, John qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:45:43 Somateria mollissima added on 2011-10-30 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-02 08:45:04
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137074
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2011-04-08 06:18:06Z   checked   Adriaens, Peter
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		Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137074 on 2013-06-20
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