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

Recurvirostra avosetta Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Recurvirostra*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: korana; sqepbiza; sqepshpata këmbëkaltër sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

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

Bulgarian: Саблеклюн sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Dutch: kluut sources: Jonsson, L. (1993). Vogels van Europa, Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten [Birds of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-187-6. 560 pp.

English: avocet; Eurasian avocet; pied avocet sources: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: Avocet; Pied Avocet sources: Charles Hussey

French: avocette élégante sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

Gaelic: abhóiséad sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Galician: Abhóiséad

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

Greek: Ευρωπαϊκή Αβοκέτα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Irish: Abhóiséad sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))

Israel (Hebrew): סיפן sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: avocetta sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

Norwegian Bokmål: avosett sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 10 p. 151

Norwegian Nynorsk: avosett sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 10 p. 151

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

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

Romanian: ciocântorsul sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Scottish: abhóiséad sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

Turkish: kılıç gaga; kilicgaga; kılıçgaga sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Чоботар; Шилодзьобка

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
basis of record	Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (117 publications)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Recurvirostra avosetta Linnaeus, 1758. 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:212721

Drs Cees Roselaar. Recurvirostra avosetta Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=96898