Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS)

MSBIAS taxon details

Recurvirostridae Bonaparte, 1854

AphiaID

196032 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196032)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Charadriiformes

Direct children (2)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Genus Himantopus Brisson, 1760
Genus Recurvirostra Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MSBIAS (2025). Recurvirostridae Bonaparte, 1854. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196032 on 2025-09-17

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Recurvirostridae Bonaparte, 1854. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196032 on 2025-09-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-12-27 19:49:34Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2020-06-25 07:35:06Z

changed

Decock, Wim

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

basis of record Woehler E.J. (compiler) 2006. Species list prepared for SCAR/IUCN/BirdLife International Workshop on Antarctic Regional Seabird Populations, March 2005, Cambridge, UK. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Language	Name
English	stilts & avocets	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Recurvirostridae)
To Genbank
To ITIS