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Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815) 
AphiaID: 137136

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Sternidae (Family) > Chlidonias (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chlidonias Rafinesque, 1822
Sources  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 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details]

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. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian dallëndyshja e detit krahëbardhë  [details]
Bulgarian Белокрила рибарка  [details]
Danish hvidvinget terne  [details]
Dutch witvleugelstern  [details]
English white winged tern  [details]
English white-winged black tern  [details]
English white-winged tern  [details]
French guifette leucoptère  [details]
German Weißflügel-Seeschwalbe  [details]
Hebrew מרומית לבנת-כנף  [details]
Lithuanian baltasparnė žuvėdra  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Αργυρογλάρονο  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål hvitvingesvartterne  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk kvitvengsvartterne  [details]
Polish rybitwa białoskrzydła  [details]
Romanian chirighiţa cu aripile albe  [details]
Russian белокрылая крачка  [details]
Slovenian beloperuta čigra  [details]
Spanish fumarel aliblanco  [details]
Swedish vitvingad tärna  [details]
Turkish ak kanatli sumru  [details]
Turkish ak kanatlı sumru  [details]
Ukrainian Крячок білокрилий  [details]
Welsh cors-wennol adeinwen  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Length: 20-23 cm. Plumage: back and wings grey with some mottling on wings; tail white; forecrown white, hindcrown speckled with black with a large black patch behind eye and small black patch in from of eye; below including underwing and sides of neck white; in breeding dress back, head and underparts, including underwing coverts, black; flight feathers pale grey, forewing white, rump, tail and undertail coverts white. Immature similar to adult but brown replaces black and some feathers edged buff. Bare parts: iris dark brown; bill black (non-breeding) or dark red (breeding); feet and legs orange-red (breeding), dark red to black (non-breeding). Habitat: estuaries and inland water bodies. Palearctic migrant. <389><391><393> [details]

Distribution: Old World [details]

Habitat: mostly inland [details]
Images 
Chlidonias leucopterus
Chlidonias leucopterus
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-21 19:39:44

Chlidonias leucopterus
Chlidonias leucopterus
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-21 19:39:49
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137136
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137136 on 2013-06-18
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