Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Galloanserae > Superorder Anserimorphae > Order Anseriformes > Suborder Anseri > Superfamily Anatoidea > Family Anatidae > Genus Branta

Branta leucopsis (Bechstein, 1803)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Branta*	Scopoli, 1769	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Anas leucopsis*	Bechstein, 1803	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: bramgås sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: brandgans

English: barnacle goose sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: bernache nonnette sources: 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.

German: Weißwangengans sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: ברנטה sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: oca facciabianca sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: baltaskruostė berniklė sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: hvitkinngås sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: hvitkinngås sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: kvitkinngås sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: bernikla białolica sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: белощёкая казарка sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Scottish Gaelic: gé ghiúrainn sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: belolična gos sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: barnacla cariblanca sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: vitkindad gås sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: akyanakli kaz; akyanaklı kaz sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Казарка білощок; Казарка білощока sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: gwydd wyran

Literature

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.
additional source	Robbins, C. S. (1983). Golden field Guide to Birds of North America. Golden press. 360p.
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.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Squires, H. J. (1990). Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 221: 532 p.
additional source	Peterson, R.T.; Peterson, V.M. (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.