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Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, 1819 
AphiaID: 137171

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Stercorariidae (Family) > Stercorarius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Stercorarius
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p. [details]

additional source: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

additional source: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details]

additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

additional source: Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.  [details]

additional source: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish lille kjove  [details]
Dutch kleinste jager  [details]
English long-tailed jaeger  [details]
English long-tailed skua  [details]
French labbe à longue queue  [details]
German Falkenraubmöwe  [details]
Hebrew חמסן זנבתן  [details]
Lithuanian ilgauodegis plėšikas  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Βελονοληστόγλαρος  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål fjelljo  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk fjelljo  [details]
Polish wydrzyk długosterny  [details]
Scottish Gaelic meirleach earrfhada  [details]
Slovenian dolgorepa govnačka  [details]
Spanish Págalo rabero  [details]
Swedish fjällabb  [details]
Turkish uzun kuyruklu korsan martı  [details]
Turkish uzunkuyruklu Korsan Marti  [details]
Ukrainian Поморник довгохвостий  [details]
Welsh sgiwen lostfain  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (19 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (423 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Breeding Category: Vagrant [details]

Dimensions: Length: 22" (56 cm); Wingspan: 40" (102 cm) [details]

Distribution: circum-arctic [details]

Distribution: North America; Oceania [details]

Reproduction: Breeds throughout the arctic regions of Eurasia and North America. Winters at sea southward in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. [details]

Taxonomy: Rarest of the jaegers visiting New Brunswick [details]
Images 
Long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) 1
Long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) 1
added on 2007-02-06 - author: Angus Wilson
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-03 07:47:06

Long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) 2
Long-tailed skua (Stercorarius longicaudus) 2
added on 2007-02-06 - author: Angus Wilson
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-03 07:46:58

Stercorarius longicaudus
Stercorarius longicaudus
added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-05-03 07:47:14
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137171
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, 1819. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137171 on 2013-06-18
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