WoRMS taxon details
Phaethon rubricauda Boddaert, 1783
212595 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212595)
accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Length: (excluding streamers) 46-50 cm. Colour: adult white with a pink wash; a black crescent through the eye and black...
Description Length: (excluding streamers) 46-50 cm. Colour: adult white with a pink wash; a black crescent through the eye and black outer webs on the base of the primaries; tail streamers red; bill red or orange; feet and legs red with black webs; immature heavily barred black on back, no streamers, bill black. Habitat: open ocean. (<313><318>). Distribution: open ocean off the whole eastern African coast [details]
WoRMS (2024). Phaethon rubricauda Boddaert, 1783. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212595 on 2024-04-18
Date
action
by
1998-07-11 06:36:40Z
created
Depew, Lorna
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context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
basis of record Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. <em>Academic Press, London.</em> [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Brown, L.H., E.K. Urban & K. Newman. (1982). The Birds of Africa, Volume I. <em>Academic Press, London.</em> [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Description Length: (excluding streamers) 46-50 cm. Colour: adult white with a pink wash; a black crescent through the eye and black outer webs on the base of the primaries; tail streamers red; bill red or orange; feet and legs red with black webs; immature heavily barred black on back, no streamers, bill black. Habitat: open ocean. (<313><318>). Distribution: open ocean off the whole eastern African coast [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | roodstaartkeerkringvogel | [details] |
| English | red-tailed tropicbird | [details] |
| French | phaéton à brins rouges | [details] |
| German | Rotschwanz-Tropikvogel | [details] |
| Japanese | アカオネッタイチョウ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (99 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (1592 nucleotides; 109 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Phaethontidae (Tropicbirds), USNM 500231, carpometacarpus, dorsal)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (99 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To GenBank (1592 nucleotides; 109 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Phaethontidae (Tropicbirds), USNM 500231, carpometacarpus, dorsal)
To ITIS
