BeRMS taxon details

Mergus serrator Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 159098

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Aves > Anseriformes > Anatidae > Mergus
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mergus
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: 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]

basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

basis of record: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details]

basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Albanian zhytësi i mesëm me çallmë  [details]
Bulgarian Среден нирец  [details]
Danish toppet skallesluger  [details]
Dutch middelste zaagbek  [details]
English red-breasted merganser  [details]
French harle huppé  [details]
German Mittelsäger  [details]
Hebrew מרגון בינוני  [details]
Italian smergo minore  [details]
Lithuanian vidutinis dančiasnapis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Θαλασσοπρίστης  [details]
Norwegian siland  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål siland  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk siland  [details]
Polish szlachar  [details]
Polish tracz długodzioby  [details]
Romanian ferestraş moţat  [details]
Romanian ferestraşul moţat  [details]
Russian длинноносый  [details]
Russian Длинноносый крохаль  [details]
Russian или морской крохаль  [details]
Scottish Gaelic síolta rua  [details]
Slovenian veliki žagar  [details]
Spanish serreta mediana  [details]
Swedish småskrake  [details]
Turkish tarakdis  [details]
Turkish tarakdiş  [details]
Ukrainian Крех середній  [details]
Ukrainian Крех середній (Крех довгоносий)  [details]
Ukrainian Середній крех  [details]
Welsh hwyaden frongoch  [details]
Environment marine, fresh
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [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 (11 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1088 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (161 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
added on 2011-09-15 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-16 09:00:16

Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
added on 2011-09-17 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-11-16 09:00:22
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159098
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Mergus serrator 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=159098 on 2013-05-19
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