Classification

Original description

Citation:
  Linnaeus, C 1758

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.150

Protonym:
  Charadrius alexandrinus

Type locality:
  Egypt, ex Hasselquist.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/169/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  A0FD5A8881370B4B

Avibase ID:
  avibase-A0FD5A88

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/A0FD5A88

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 176510

Geographic range:

• Anarhynchus pallidus: inland and coastal eastern Africa in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, and widely scattered localities in southern Africa from southern Angola and central Mozambique southward through South Africa
• Anarhynchus pallidus pallidus: locally in southern Africa
• Anarhynchus pallidus venustus: Rift Valley soda lakes on Kenya/Tanzania border
• Anarhynchus alexandrinus [alexandrinus, nihonensis or seebohmi]: coastal and inland southern Palearctic from southern Europe eastward to northeastern Asia, in south through northern Africa east through Middle East and Sri Lanka to Taiwan; winters to Sahel of west-central to east-central Africa through eastern China, Indonesian Archipelago, and Philippines
• Anarhynchus alexandrinus alexandrinus: breeds western Palearctic to eastern China, southern Japan including Ryukyu Islands; winters to Africa, southern Asia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Borneo
• Anarhynchus alexandrinus dealbatus: breeds coastal southeastern China; also Vietnam (1 nest); winters to coastal southern Vietnam, southern Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and eastern Sumatra
• Anarhynchus alexandrinus nihonensis: breeds coasts of far southeastern Russia, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, northern Japan, and perhaps northeastern China; nonbreeding range unknown
• Anarhynchus alexandrinus seebohmi: southeastern India and Sri Lanka
• Anarhynchus nivosus: breeds coastal Washington to central Baja California; inland Saskatchewan (irregular; south-central Canada) to California and central Oklahoma and Texas; coastal Gulf of Mexico to Yucatán Peninsula; inland central Mexico; southern and central Bahamas to Virgin Islands; and Peru to south-central Chile; winters to coastal northern Central America
• Anarhynchus nivosus nivosus: USA to Mexico and West Indies; winters to Panama
• Anarhynchus nivosus occidentalis: coastal Peru to south-central Chile
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