Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Aves > Order Charadriiformes > Family Scolopacidae > Genus Tringa

Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, 1789)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Scolopax

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

TringaLinnaeus, 1758accepted genus name
Heteroscelus Baird, 1858 synonym

Species group names

Scolopax melanoleuca Gmelin, 1789 objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Bokmål (Norwegian): plystresnipe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Dutch: grote geelpootruiter sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 English: greater yellowlegs sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 English-United States: Greater Yellowlegs sources: Charles Hussey
 French: grand chevalier sources: Avibase - the world bird database
 German: großer Gelbschenkel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Lithuanian: margasis tulikas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian: plystresnipe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Bokmål: plystresnipe sources: Syst. Nat. 1 pt 2 p. 659
 Norwegian Nynorsk: plystresnipe sources: Syst. Nat. 1 pt 2 p. 659
 Nynorsk (Norwegian): plystresnipe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: brodziec piegowaty sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: улит пестрый sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: veliki rumenonogi martinec sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Spanish, Castillian: archibebe patigualdo grande sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: större gulbena sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Turkish: büyük sarıbacak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Welsh: melyngoes mawr

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

Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983

additional source

Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station.

additional source

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.

additional source

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.

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

Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p.

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.

additional source

ITIS database

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (26 nucleotides; 22 proteins)
Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Tringa melanoleuca. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158967

Drs Cees Roselaar. Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, 1789). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=96848

Image

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine

Importance

no data

Provided by

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158967
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:96848

Last modified

2011-04-27 by Drs Cees Roselaar & by Peter Adriaens

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