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

Pelecanus rufescens Gmelin, 1789

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pelecanus*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kleine pelikaan sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

French: pélican gris sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

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

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

Lithuanian: rausvanugaris pelikanas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: pelikan mały sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: розовоспи́нный пелика́н sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: črnooki pelikan sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Turkish: pembe sırtlı pelikan sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Пелікан рожевоспинний; Рожевоспинний пелікан

Literature

basis of record	Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. Academic Press, London.

Genbank

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Pelecanus rufescens Gmelin, 1789. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212726

Drs. Cees Roselaar. Pelecanus rufescens Gmelin, 1789. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/67b908dd-4bc7-4c8c-b2ee-1cb52da01752

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Occurrence

Present

Absent

Doubtful

Native

Introduced

Naturalised

Invasive

Managed

No data

Environment

marine, terrestrial

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212726
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:96627

Last modified

2011-04-08 by Drs. Cees Roselaar & by Peter Adriaens

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