Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis] (Purple or Rock Sandpiper)

Purple or Rock Sandpiper

Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis] (= Calidris maritima) (Brünnich, MT 1764)

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Classification

Order:
  Charadriiformes
Family:
  Scolopacidae
Genus:
   Calidris
Scientific:
  Calidris maritima

Original description

Citation:
(Brünnich, MT 1764)

Reference:
Orn. Borealis

Protonym:
Tringa maritima

Type locality:
Christianso and Norway.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/265835#page/66/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
C6ED526E8FCB3616

Avibase ID:
avibase-C6ED526E

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/C6ED526E

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 176646

Geographic range:

Calidris maritima: Holarctic tundra; winters coastal eastern USA and northwestern Europe
Calidris ptilocnemis: breeds coastal low Arctic to subarctic tundra of far northern Pacific from eastern Chukotskiy Peninsula to (disjunctly) southern Kamchatka, Commander and (perhaps) northern Kuril islands (eastern Russia), Aleutian and Bering Sea islands, western Alaska from Seward Peninsula to Gulf of Alaska islands; winters rocky subarctic to temperate coasts to central California
Calidris ptilocnemis ptilocnemis: Pribilof, St. Matthew, and Hall islands; winters Alaska Peninsula
Calidris ptilocnemis quarta: Kuril Islands, southern Kamchatka Peninsula, and Komandorskiye Islands
Calidris ptilocnemis tschuktschorum: Chukotsk Peninsula to western Alaska; winters northwestern North America and eastern Japan
Calidris ptilocnemis couesi: Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula
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Source: Clements checklist

English:
Purple or Rock Sandpiper
Danish:
Beringsryle/Sortgrå Ryle
German:
Bering-/Meerstrandläufer
Spanish:
Correlimos Roquero/Oscuro
Spanish (Spain):
Correlimos roquero/oscuro
French:
Bécasseau violet ou B. des Aléoutiennes
Icelandic:
Hleintíta/sendlingur
Japanese (romaji):
chishimashigi/murasakihamashigi
Japanese:
チシマシギ/ムラサキハマシギ
Norwegian:
klippesnipe/fjæreplytt
Polish:
biegus skalny/morski
Portuguese (Portugal):
pilrito-das-rochas/pilrito-escuro
Russian:
Берингийский/Морской песочник
Slovak:
pobrežník čiernozobý/morský
Serbian:
Sprutka kamenjarka/morska sprutka
Swedish:
klippsnäppa/skärsnäppa

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 14th suppl.): Purple Sandpiper ( Arquatella maritima) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 15th suppl.): Purple Sandpiper ( Arquatella maritima) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (1910): Purple Sandpiper ( Arquatella maritima) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 16th suppl.): Purple Sandpiper ( Arquatella maritima) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 17th suppl.): Purple Sandpiper ( Arquatella maritima) [version 1]
American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 18th suppl.): Purple Sandpiper ( Arquatella maritima) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Purple or Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis])
Clements 1st edition: Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris ptilocnemis) [version 1]
eBird version 2016: Rock/Purple Sandpiper ( Calidris ptilocnemis/maritima)
eBird version 2017: Rock/Purple Sandpiper ( Calidris ptilocnemis/maritima)
eBird version 2018: Rock/Purple Sandpiper ( Calidris ptilocnemis/maritima)
eBird version 2019: Rock/Purple Sandpiper ( Calidris ptilocnemis/maritima)
eBird version 2021: Rock/Purple Sandpiper ( Calidris ptilocnemis/maritima)
eBird version 2022: Rock/Purple Sandpiper ( Calidris ptilocnemis/maritima)
eBird version 2023: Purple/Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris maritima/ptilocnemis)
eBird version 2024: Purple/Rock Sandpiper ( Calidris maritima/ptilocnemis)

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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Other synonyms

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Asturian: Mazaricu de Pedreu
Belarusian: Марскі пясочнік
Bulgarian: Берингов / Морски брегобегач
Breton: Ar sourouc'han du
Catalan: Territ fosc
Catalan (Balears): Corriol fosc
Valencian: Territ variant
Czech: jespák mořský
Welsh: Pibydd du
Danish: Beringsryle/Sortgrå Ryle, Sortgrå Ryle
German: Bering-/Meerstrandläufer, Meerstrandläufer
Greek: Βραχοσκαλίδρα
English: Purple or Rock Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Purple/Rock Sandpiper, Rock Sandpiper, Rock/Purple Sandpiper
English, HBW: Rock/Purple Sandpiper
English (IOC): Rock/Purple Sandpiper
English (United States): Rock/Purple Sandpiper
Esperanto: markalidro
Spanish: Correlimos Oscuro, Correlimos Roquero/Oscuro
Spanish (Costa Rica): Correlimos pechinegro
Spanish (Spain): Correlimos Roquero/Oscuro
Spanish (Mexico): Playero Dorsirrojo
Estonian: Meririsla
Basque: Txirri iluna
Finnish: merisirri
Faroese: Grælingur
French: Bécasseau des Aléoutiennes ou B. violet, Bécasseau violet, Bécasseau violet ou B. des Aléoutiennes
Irish: Gobadán Cosbhuí
Gaelic: Luatharan Rioghail
Galician: Pilro escuro
Manx: Looyran gorrym
Hebrew: חופית ימית
Croatian: Morski žalar
Hungarian: Tengeri partfutó
Icelandic: Hleintíta/sendlingur, Sendlingur
Italian: Piovanello violetto
Inuktitut: Saarfaarsuk
Japanese (romaji): chishimashigi/murasakihamashigi, murasakihamashigi
Japanese: チシマシギ/ムラサキハマシギ, ムラサキハマシギ
Kazakh: Тењіз құмдауық
Cornish: Pyber ruthlas
Scientific: Arquatella maritima, Calidris [maritima or ptilocnemis], Calidris maritima, Calidris maritima maritima, Calidris maritima/ptilocnemis, Calidris ptilocnemis, Calidris ptilocnemis/maritima, Ereunetes maritimus, Totanus niger, Tringa lincolniensis, Tringa Maritima
Lithuanian: Jūrinis bėgikas
Latvian: Jūras šņibītis
Mongolian: Тэнгисийн элсэг
Maltese: Beggazzina tan-Nord
Dutch: Paarse Strandloper
Norwegian: Fjæreplytt, klippesnipe/fjæreplytt
Polish: biegus morski, biegus skalny/morski
Portuguese: Pilrito-escuro
Portuguese (Portugal): pilrito-das-rochas/pilrito-escuro
Romansh: Rivarel violet
Russian: Берингийский/Морской песочник, Морской песочник
Scots: Luatharan rioghail
Northern Sami: Gáddeviroš
Slovak: pobrežník čiernozobý/morský, pobrežník morský
Slovenian: morski prodnik
Serbian: Sprutka kamenjarka/morska sprutka
Swedish: klippsnäppa/skärsnäppa, Skärsnäppa
Turkish: Kaya/mor kumkuşu, Mor Kumkuşu
Tuvinian: Далай кудуруктуг элезинчи
Ukrainian: Побережник морський
Chinese: 紫滨鹬
Chinese (Traditional): 紫濱鷸