Editing Godwit (section)

==Taxonomy==
The [[genus]] ''Limosa'' was introduced by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] in 1760 with the [[black-tailed godwit]] (''Limosa limosa'') as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Divisio Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés | language=fr, la | at=[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36010447 Vol. 1, p. 48], [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36294591 Vol. 5, p. 261] | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=263 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483076 }}</ref> The genus name ''Limosa'' is from [[Latin]] and means "muddy", from ''limus'', "mud".<ref>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page =[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n227 227] }}</ref> The English name "godwit" was first recorded in about 1416–17 and is believed to imitate the bird's call.<ref name=OED>{{Cite OED |Godwit}}</ref>

The genus contains four living species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web | editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Buttonquail, plovers, seedsnipe, sandpipers | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/buttonquail/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=3 April 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221191829/https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/buttonquail/ | archive-date=21 December 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{Species table |genus= Limosa  |authority-name=[[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]] |authority-year=1760 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

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|name= [[Bar-tailed godwit]] |binomial=[[Limosa lapponica]]
|image=File:Bar-tailed Godwit.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Breeding Plumage
|image2 =File:Limosa lapponica 2 - Taren Point.jpg|image2-caption=Non-Breeding Plumage
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=  Scandinavia to Alaska,  temperate and tropical regions of Australia and New Zealand.
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|iucn-status= NT
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Five subspecies |bullets=on
|''L. l. lapponica'' ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758) 
| ''L. l. yamalensis'' Bom et al. 2021  
|''L. l. taymyrensis'' Engelmoer & Roselaar, 1998 
|''L. l. menzbieri'' – [[Leonid Portenko|Portenko]], 1936 
|''L. l. baueri'' – [[Johann Friedrich Naumann|Naumann]], 1836
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|name= [[Black-tailed godwit]]|binomial=[[Limosa limosa]]
|image=File:Black tailed godwit (28524431355).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Breeding Plumage
|image2 =File:Black-tailed godwit at Ameenpur lake.jpg|image2-caption=Non-Breeding Plumage
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= the Indian subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe and west Africa. 
|range-image=File:LimosalimosaWorldDistribution.jpg
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|iucn-status= NT
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on
|''L. l. bohaii'' <small>Zhu, Piersma, Verkuil & Conklin, 2020</small>
|''L. l. limosa'' <small>[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]</small>
|''L. l. islandica'' <small>[[Christian Ludwig Brehm|Brehm]], 1831</small>
|''L. l. melanuroides'' <small>[[John Gould|Gould]], 1846</small>
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|name= [[Hudsonian godwit]] |binomial=[[Limosa haemastica]]
|image=File:Hudsonian Godwit - Churchill - Canada 01 (15657156459).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Breeding Plumage
|image2 =File:Limosa haemastica - Kogarah Bay.jpg|image2-caption=Non-Breeding Plumage
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=  northern Canada and winters in southern South America.
|range-image=File:Limosa haemastica map.svg
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|iucn-status= VU
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|name= [[Marbled godwit]] |binomial=[[Limosa fedoa]]
|image=File:Marbled Godwit (4463451677).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=|image-caption=Breeding Plumage
|image2 =File:Marbled godwit, Limosa fedoa, Moss Landing (Elkhorn Slough and beach), California, USA. (25305609479).jpg|image2-caption=Non-Breeding Plumage
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range=  Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts of the US and Mexico.
|range-image=File:Limosa fedoa map.svg
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|iucn-status= VU
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on
|''L. f. beringiae'' Gibson & Kessel, 1989 
|''L. f. fedoa'' ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)
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}}

{{Species table/end}}