WoRMS taxon details
Xema sabini (Sabine, 1819)
AphiaID: 137167
AphiaID: 137167
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Laridae (Family) > Xema (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Xema Leach, 1819 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Larus sabini Sabine, 1819 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Sabine, E., 1824. Marine Invertebrate Animals. In: Parry, W.E., A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry’s Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in the Years 1819-20. Containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History: ccixi-ccxl, Plates 1-2. John Murray, London. [details] 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] additional source: 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. [details] additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] 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. [details] 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. [details] additional source: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] 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. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] from synonym: Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Xema sabini palaearctica Stegman, 1934 Subspecies Xema sabini sabini (J. Sabine, 1819) Subspecies Xema sabini tschuktschorum Portenko, 1939 Subspecies Xema sabini woznesenskii Portenko, 1939 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wimereux (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (185 publications) To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: Length: 13 1/2" (34 cm); Wingspan: 33" (84 cm) [details] Distribution: North America; very rare but regular fall migrant through interior and off Atlantic Coast [details] Distribution: circum-arctic [details] Reproduction: Breeds on the northern coast of Greenland, on the islands north of Canada, and in Alaska. It also Breeds in extreme north of Europe and Asia. Winters at sea in both the Atlantic and Pacific and has been found as far south as Peru. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137167 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Xema sabini (Sabine, 1819). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137167 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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