Species profile
Tringa dorsalis
Tringa dorsalis
Quick answer
Type locality. Pichipuchini, Peru (Meyen 1834 a, b), Chile (Burmeister 1856), Paraguay (Azara 1805, 1809, Vieillot 1819), Montevideo, Uruguay (Burmeister 1856), and southern Brazil (Burmeister 1856). “ Tropical America ” (Lichtenstein 1854) is essentially meaningless (as it encompasses all five specimens, which are or were in the Berlin collection).
- Scientific name
- Tringa dorsalis
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Tringa
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