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Tringa melanoleuca (greater yellowlegs)

Osteichthyes - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae

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

It was recombined as Totanus melanoleucus by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Miller and DeMay (1942), Wetmore (1956), Jehl (1967), Campbell (1976); it was recombined as Totanus melanoleucas by Campbell (1979); it was recombined as Tringa melanoleuca by Steadman et al. (2015), Clements et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1789Scolopax melanoleuca Gmelin
1930Totanus melanoleucus Hay p. 338
1940Totanus melanoleucus Wetmore p. 58
1942Totanus melanoleucus Miller and DeMay p. 111
1956Totanus melanoleucus Wetmore p. 73
1967Totanus melanoleucus Jehl p. 27
1976Totanus melanoleucus Campbell p. 161
1979Totanus melanoleucas Campbell
2015Tringa melanoleuca Steadman et al. p. 557
2017Tringa melanoleuca Clements et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
orderCharadriiformesHuxley 1867
familyScolopacidaeRafinesque 1815
genusTringa
speciesmelanoleuca(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 melanoleuca Gmelin 1789 [greater yellowlegs]
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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: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Rancholabrean or 0.12900 to 0.01400 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Rancholabrean0.21 - 0.014USA (California) Totanus melanoleucus (152008)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Oregon) Totanus melanoleucas (93251)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Totanus melanoleucus (20595) Tringa melanoleuca (20573)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Ecuador Totanus melanoleucus (152599)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (California) Totanus melanoleucus (190077)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Peru Totanus melanoleucas (71346)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial)0.129 - 0.0117Venezuela (Zulia) Tringa melanoleuca (63515)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene0.129 - 0.0USA (Utah) Tringa melanoleuca (93326)