Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Aves > Order Charadriiformes > Family Scolopacidae > Genus Calidris

Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tringa Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Calidris*	Merrem, 1804	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Tringa minutilla*	Vieillot, 1819	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kleinste strandloper

English: least sandpiper sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Least Sandpiper sources: Charles Hussey

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

Lithuanian: nykštukinis bėgikas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: biegus karłowaty sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: pritlikavi prodnik sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Turkish: küçük kum kuşu

Literature

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.
additional source	Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983
additional source	Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station.
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.
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.
additional source	Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p.
additional source	Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p.
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.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications)
Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
GenBank (375 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159054

Drs Cees Roselaar. Calidris minutilla (Vieillot, 1819). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=96803