Genus: Tringa
Description
Waders. Range is almost worldwide; breed in North America and Eurasia.
Taxonomy
Tringa is a genus in the family Scolopacidae.
Tringa leg coloration
Pereira & Baker (2005) shows evidence to treat Spotted Redshank (erythropus), Greater Yellowlegs (melanoleuca), and Common Greenshank (nebularia) as a superspecies. This study demonstrates Tringa leg coloration as a paraphyletic character, exhibiting the full spectrum of Tringa leg coloration within a superspecies.
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| T. ochropus | Green Sandpiper | ||
| T. solitaria | Solitary Sandpiper | ||
| T. brevipes | Grey-tailed Tattler | ||
| T. incana | Wandering Tattler | ||
| T. erythropus | Spotted Redshank | ||
| T. melanoleuca | Greater Yellowlegs | ||
| T. nebularia | Common Greenshank | ||
| T. guttifer | Nordmann's Greenshank | ||
| T. semipalmata | Willet | ||
| T. flavipes | Lesser Yellowlegs | ||
| T. stagnatilis | Marsh Sandpiper | ||
| T. glareola | Wood Sandpiper | ||
| T. totanus | Common Redshank | ||
Pages in category ‘Tringa’
The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
