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

Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, 1789)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Scolopax

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tringa*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Heteroscelus*	Baird, 1858	synonym

Species group names

*Scolopax melanoleuca*	Gmelin, 1789	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): plystresnipe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: grote geelpootruiter sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: greater yellowlegs sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Greater Yellowlegs sources: Charles Hussey

French: grand chevalier sources: Avibase - the world bird database

German: großer Gelbschenkel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: margasis tulikas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian: plystresnipe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: plystresnipe sources: Syst. Nat. 1 pt 2 p. 659

Norwegian Nynorsk: plystresnipe sources: Syst. Nat. 1 pt 2 p. 659

Nynorsk (Norwegian): plystresnipe sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: brodziec piegowaty sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: улит пестрый sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: veliki rumenonogi martinec sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: archibebe patigualdo grande sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: större gulbena sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: büyük sarıbacak sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: melyngoes mawr

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

GenBank (26 nucleotides; 22 proteins)
Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Tringa melanoleuca. 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:158967

Drs Cees Roselaar. Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, 1789). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=96848