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Motacilla alba  Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomic Serial No.: 178476

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s):    
  Common Name(s): Lavandera blanca [Spanish]
  
    White Wagtail [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderPasseriformes  – Perching Birds, passereaux  
                            FamilyMotacillidae Horsfield, 1821 – Pipits, Wagtails  
                               GenusMotacilla Linnaeus, 1758 – Wagtails  
                                  SpeciesMotacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758 – Lavandera blanca, White Wagtail  
    Direct Children:  
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba alba Linnaeus, 1758  
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba alboides Hodgson, 1836 – Black-eared Wagtail, Hodgson's Wagtail 
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba baicalensis Swinhoe, 1871 – Swinhoe's Wagtail 
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba leucopsis (Gould, 1838) – Amur Wagtail, White-faced Wagtail 
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba lugens Gloger, 1829 – Black-backed Wagtail, Japanese Pied Wagtail, Kamchatka Pied Wagtail 
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba ocularis Swinhoe, 1860 – Streak-eyed Wagtail 
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba personata Gould, 1861 – Masked Wagtail 
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba subpersonata Meade-Waldo, 1901 – Moroccan Wagtail 
                                     SubspeciesMotacilla alba yarrellii Gould, 1837 – Pied Wagtail, British Pied Wagtail 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alan P. Peterson, M.D.   
  Notes: PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999   
  Reference for: Motacilla alba    
       
  Expert: Richard C. Banks   
  Notes: Chief, Bird Section, U.S.G.S. - B.R.D. - P.W.R.C.   
  Reference for: Motacilla alba    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: CDP, database (version 1999)  
  Acquired: 2003   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: White Wagtail[English]   
       
  Source: AOU Check-List (07-2005), website (version Jul-2005)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: American Ornithologists' Union's "LIST OF THE 2,037 BIRD SPECIES (WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES) KNOWN FROM THE A.O.U. CHECK-LIST AREA" (AOU Check-list, 7th edition, updated with Supplements 42-46), maintained at http://www.aou.org/   
  Reference for: White Wagtail[English]   
       
  Source: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, database (version undefined)  
  Acquired: 2001   
  Notes: CONABIO: (http://www.conabio.gob.mx/)   
  Reference for: Lavandera blanca[Spanish]   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Motacilla alba   
       
  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2011.12.31, website (version 31-Dec-11)  
  Acquired: 2012   
  Notes: "Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource" maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
  Reference for: Motacilla alba   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner   
  Publication Date: 1987   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Resource Publication, no. 166   
  Page(s): 79   
  Publisher: United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Motacilla alba   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright   
  Publication Date: 2006   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Birds of the World: Recommended English Names   
  Page(s): ix + 259   
  Publisher: Princeton University Press   
  Publication Place: Princeton, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-691-12827-8   
  Notes: Includes a CD-ROM with the full dataset   
  Reference for: Motacilla alba, White Wagtail [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: North America  
    Oceania  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Alaska, Native  
    Continental US, Incidental  
 

 

    

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