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Tringa incana (wandering tattler)

Osteichthyes - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae

Taxonomy

Scolopax incana was named by Gmelin (1789). It is extant.

It was recombined as Heteroscelus incanum by Olson and James (1982); it was recombined as Heteroscelus incanus by Steadman et al. (1990), Steadman and Pahlavan (1992), Wragg (1995); it was recombined as Tringa incana by Clements et al. (2017).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1789	Scolopax incana Gmelin
1982	Heteroscelus incanum Olson and James p. 36
1990	Heteroscelus incanus Steadman et al. p. 134
1992	Heteroscelus incanus Steadman and Pahlavan p. 467
1995	Heteroscelus incanus Wragg
2017	Tringa incana Clements et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
order	Charadriiformes	Huxley 1867
family	Scolopacidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Tringa
species	incana	(Gmelin 1789)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Tringa incana Gmelin 1789 [wandering tattler]

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

marineo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2017-04-17 10:41:05

Modified:

2017-04-17 10:41:05

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (California)	Tringa incana (123918)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Solomon Islands	Heteroscelus incanus (209065 209067 209081)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Pitcairn	Heteroscelus incanus (193789)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Marshall Islands	Heteroscelus incanus (194995)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Tonga	Heteroscelus incanus (194751)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	French Polynesia	Heteroscelus incanus (194675)