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Motacilla Linnaeus 1758
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Scott Bowers cc-by-nc
Motacilla is a genus of
birds
in the family
Motacillidae
.
EOL has data for
12 attributes
, including:
habitat includes
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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forest
URI:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000174
Definition:
A forest biome is a terrestrial biome which includes, across its entire spatial extent, densely packed vegetation which strongly limits light penetration to the forest floor.
Comment:
Preliminary definition.
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number of public records in bold
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
Definition:
number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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105
water depth
URI:
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
Definition:
The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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0 m
water temperature
URI:
http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
Definition:
Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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6 degrees celsius
Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Motacilla Linnaeus 1758.
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Scott Bowers cc-by-nc
Motacilla includes
15 children
:
Motacilla aguimp Temminck 1820 (African Pied Wagtail)
Motacilla alba Linnaeus 1758 (White wagtail)
Motacilla bocagii (Sharpe 1892)
Motacilla capensis Linnaeus 1766 (Cape Wagtail)
Motacilla cinerea Tunstall 1771 (Gray wagtail)
Motacilla citreola Pallas 1776 (Citrine Wagtail)
Motacilla clara Sharpe 1908 (Mountain Wagtail)
Motacilla flava Linnaeus 1758 (Blue-headed wagtail)
Motacilla flaviventris Hartlaub 1860 (Madagascar Wagtail)
Motacilla grandis Sharpe 1885 (Japanese Wagtail)
Motacilla humata Milne-Edwards 1871
Motacilla maderaspatensis Gmelin & JF 1789 (White-browed Wagtail)
Motacilla major Milne-Edwards 1871
Motacilla samveasnae Duckworth et al. 2001 (Mekong Wagtail)
Motacilla tschutschensis Gmelin & JF 1789 (Eastern Yellow Wagtail)
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