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Limnodromus

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Description

The three dowitchers are medium-sized long-billed wading birds in the genus Limnodromus. The genus name is Ancient Greek from limne (marsh) and dromos (racer). The English name is from Iroquois (1841).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnodromus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2481669	https://www.gbif.org/species/2481669
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	289525	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=289525

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae : Limnodromus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
-	Paraves	Sereno 1997
class	Aves	Linnaeus 1758
order	Charadriiformes	Huxley 1867
family	Scolopacidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Limnodromus	Wied 1833

Common Name

dowitcher

Scientific Name

Limnodromus Wied, 1833

Name Published In

Beitr. Naturgesch. Brasil. 4 p. 716

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Limnodromus	genus	belongs to Scolopacidae	stated without evidence	Emslie, 1992
Limnodromus	genus	belongs to Scolopacidae	stated with evidence	Clements et al., 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

4.90 - 1.80 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

marine (based on Charadriiformes)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. D. Emslie. 1998. Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula. Ornithological Monographs (50):1-113

Common Name(s)

Dowitcher, オオハシシギ, Beckasinsnäppor, Ob. Beckasinsnäppa, Dowitchers

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnodromus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Limnodromus griseus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Short-billed Dowitcher	2	0.30 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Limnodromus scolopaceus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Long-billed Dowitcher	4	4.90 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Limnodromus semipalmatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Macroramfus S.D.W., 1836	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae : *Macroramfus*
Macroramphus Lesson, 1828	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae : *Macroramphus*
Pseudoscolopax Blyth, 1859	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae : *Pseudoscolopax*
Lymnodromus Gray, 1841	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae : *Lymnodromus*
Macrorhamphus Leach, 1816	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Charadriiformes : Scolopacidae : *Macrorhamphus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1833	Limnodromus Wied-Neuwied
1992	Limnodromus Emslie p. 264
1998	Limnodromus Emslie
2017	Limnodromus Clements et al.

References

Emslie S. D. (1998) Avian community, climate, and sea-level changes in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Florida Peninsula, Ornithological Monographs 50, 1-113

Emslie S. D. (1992) Two new late Blancan avifaunas from Florida and the extinction of wetland birds in the Plio-Pleistocene, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 36, 249-269

Clements J. F., Schulenberg T. S., et al (2017) , The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017

Beitr. Naturg. Brasil., 4 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

web search (AJR) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Monroe Jr. & Sibley, 1993 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SOF (2007) Holarktis Fåglar, version 2. SOF:s Taxonomikommittés officiella lista över Holarktis fåglar - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. - via World Register of Marine Species

Gill, D. (eds.) (2015) IOC World Bird List (v 5.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.5.1. Online: http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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