Branta bernicla (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 159175

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

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Branta
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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Danish knortegås  [details] Dutch rotgans  [details] English barnacle goose  [details] English brant  [details] English Brant goose  [details] English Brent goose  [details] French bernachle cravant  [details] German Ringelgans  [details] Hebrew ברנטה  [details] Italian oca colombaccio  [details] Lithuanian paprastoji berniklė  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Δαχτυλιδόχηνα  [details] Norwegian ringgås  [details] Norwegian Bokmål ringgås  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk ringgås  [details] Polish bernikla obrożna  [details] Russian черная казарка  [details] Scottish Gaelic cadhan  [details] Slovenian grivasta gos  [details] Spanish barnacla carinegra  [details] Swedish prutgås  [details] Turkish yosun kazi  [details] Turkish yosun kazı  [details] Ukrainian гусак Брента  [details] Ukrainian Казарка чорна  [details] Ukrainian Чорна казарка  [details] Welsh gwydd ddu  [details]
Environment		marine, brackish
Distribution		Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [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] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (605 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 27 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS
Images		Rotgans added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:01:18 Brent Goose (Branta bernicula) added on 2012-11-02 - author: Lowry, Roy qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-17 09:01:23
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159175
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-05-27 09:47:05Z   created   Appeltans, Ward 2010-09-09 08:18:14Z   changed   Appeltans, Ward 2011-04-08 06:18:06Z   checked   Adriaens, Peter
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		Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Branta bernicla (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=159175 on 2013-06-18
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