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Poecile atricapillus  (Linnaeus, 1766)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 554382

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766
  
  Common Name(s): Black-capped Chickadee [English]
  
    mésange à tête noire [French]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderPasseriformes  – Perching Birds, passereaux  
                            FamilyParidae Vigors, 1825 – Chickadees, Titmice, Tits  
                               GenusPoecile Kaup, 1829  
                                  SpeciesPoecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) – Black-capped Chickadee, mésange à tête noire  
    Direct Children:  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus bartletti (Aldrich & Nutt, 1939)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus fortuitus (W. L. Dawson & J. H. Bowles, 1909)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus garrinus (Behle, 1951)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus nevadensis (Linsdale, 1938)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus occidentalis (S. F. Baird, 1858)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus practicus (Oberholser, 1937)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus septentrionalis (Harris, 1846)  
                                     Subspecies Poecile atricapillus turneri (Ridgway, 1884)  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alan P. Peterson, M.D.  
  Notes: PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999   
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus    
       
  Expert: Richard C. Banks  
  Notes: Chief, Bird Section, U.S.G.S. - B.R.D. - P.W.R.C.   
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: CDP, database (version 1999)  
  Acquired: 2003   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Black-capped Chickadee[English], mésange à tête noire [French]   
       
  Source: AOU Check-List (07-2005), website (version Jul-2005)  
  Acquired: 2005   
  Notes: American Ornithologists' Union's "LIST OF THE 2,037 BIRD SPECIES (WITH SCIENTIFIC AND ENGLISH NAMES) KNOWN FROM THE A.O.U. CHECK-LIST AREA" (AOU Check-list, 7th edition, updated with Supplements 42-46), maintained at http://www.aou.org/   
  Reference for: Black-capped Chickadee[English]   
       
  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2007.03.27, website (version 26/03/2007)  
  Acquired: 2007   
  Notes: "Zoonomen Nomenclatural data" maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus   
       
  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2011.12.31, website (version 31-Dec-11)  
  Acquired: 2012   
  Notes: "Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource" maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): American Ornithologists' Union  
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Check-list of North American Birds, 7th Edition   
  Page(s): liv + 829   
  Publisher: American Ornithologists' Union   
  Publication Place: Washington, DC, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 1-891276-00-X   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus, Black-capped Chickadee [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes  
  Publication Date: 2003   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Page(s):    
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes: As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998   
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Clements, James F.  
  Publication Date: 2007   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Sixth Edition   
  Page(s): xix + 843   
  Publisher: Cornell University Press   
  Publication Place: Ithaca, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0801445019   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus, Black-capped Chickadee [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gill, Frank B., Beth Slikas, and Frederick H. Sheldon  
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: Phylogeny of Titmice (Paridae): II. Species relationships based on sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Auk, vol. 122, no. 1   
  Page(s): 121-143   
  Publisher:    
  Publication Place:    
  ISBN/ISSN: 0004-8038   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright  
  Publication Date: 2006   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Birds of the World: Recommended English Names   
  Page(s): ix + 259   
  Publisher: Princeton University Press   
  Publication Place: Princeton, New Jersey, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-691-12827-8   
  Notes: Includes a CD-ROM with the full dataset   
  Reference for: Poecile atricapillus, Black-capped Chickadee [English]   
       

 Geographic Information
       
  Geographic Division: North America  
       
  Jurisdiction/Origin: Alaska, Native  
    Canada, Native  
    Continental US, Native  
 

 

    

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