WoRMS taxon details
Aythya collaris (Donovan, 1809)
AphiaID: 159163
AphiaID: 159163
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Anseriformes (Order) > Anatidae (Family) > Aythya (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Aythya Boie, 1822 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 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. [details] basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] basis of record: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] basis of record: University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Animal Diversity Web., available online at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html [details] basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 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] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (300 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 13 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: seeds, pondweeds and tubers with supplements of insect larvae, mollusks, worms and crustaceans [details] Dimensions: Length: 17" (43 cm) [details] Distribution: North America; Labrador to the Gulf of Maine; also, found from Virginia into the Gulf of Mexico [details] Habitat: marshes, swamps and bogs [details] Importance: game species [details] Predators: man [details] Reproduction: Breeds from Newfoundland to British Columbia and south to Maine, Nebraska, and northeastern California. Winters from Massachusetts, Arkansas, Nevada, and southern British Columbia south to the West Indies and Central America. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159163 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Aythya collaris (Donovan, 1809). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159163 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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