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

Calidris pusilla (Linnaeus, 1766)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Calidris*	Merrem, 1804	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Danish: tyknæbbet dværgryle sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: grijze strandloper sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: Semipalmated Sandpiper sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Semipalmated Sandpiper sources: Charles Hussey

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

Lithuanian: mažasis smiltinukas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Norwegian Bokmål: sandsnipe sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 12 p. 252

Norwegian Nynorsk: sandsnipe sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 12 p. 252

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

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

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

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

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

Ukrainian: Довгопалий побережник; Побережник довгопалий sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Welsh: pibydd llwyd

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	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 (44 nucleotides; 44 proteins)
Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Calidris pusilla. 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:159055