Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Order Pelecaniformes > Family Phaethontidae > Genus Phaethon

Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phaethon*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: roodsnavelkeerkringvogel sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

English: red-billed tropicbird sources: Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.

French: phaéton à bec rouge sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

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

Hebrew: פתון אדום-מקור sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: raudonsnapis faetonas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: faeton białosterny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: красноклювый фаэтон sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Turkish: kırmızı gagalı tropik kuşu sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Фаетон

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
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
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.
additional source	Gallardo, J. C.; Macías, V.; Velarde, E. (2009). Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Pp. 1321–1342.
additional source	Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Vanner, M. (2003). The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. 1-383.