North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Tringa Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

158966 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158966)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Scolopacidae Vigors, 1825

Original name

Tringa Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Heteroscelus Baird, 1858 · unaccepted

Direct children (13)

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Species Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816)
Species Tringa erythropus (Pallas, 1764)
Species Tringa flavipes (Gmelin, 1789)
Species Tringa glareola Linnaeus, 1758
Species Tringa melanoleuca (Gmelin, 1789)
Species Tringa nebularia (Gunnerus, 1767)
Species Tringa ochropus Linnaeus, 1758
Species Tringa semipalmata (Gmelin, 1789)
Species Tringa solitaria Wilson, 1813
Species Tringa stagnatilis (Bechstein, 1803)
Species Tringa totanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Tringa alba Pallas, 1764 accepted as Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)
Species Tringa cinerea (Güldenstâdt, 1775) accepted as Xenus cinereus (Güldenstädt, 1775)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

ERMS (2025). Tringa Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158966 on 2026-06-24

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Tringa Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=158966 on 2026-06-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-27 09:47:05Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2018-09-10 08:50:53Z

changed

Tasker, Mark

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Urban, E. K.; Fry, C. H.; Keith, S. (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Heteroscelus Baird, 1858)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tringa)
To ITIS