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Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 159389

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Passeriformes (Order) > Corvidae (Family) > Corvus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Corvus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

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

basis of record: 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]

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

basis of record: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian korbi  [details]
Albanian korraku  [details]
Bulgarian Гарван  [details]
Danish ravn  [details]
Dutch raaf  [details]
English common raven  [details]
English northern raven  [details]
English raven  [details]
French grand corbeau  [details]
German Kolkrabe  [details]
Hebrew עורב שחור  [details]
Lithuanian kranklys  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Κοινός Κόρακας  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål ravn  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk ramn  [details]
Polish kruk  [details]
Russian ворон  [details]
Scottish Gaelic fiach dubh  [details]
Slovenian krokar  [details]
Spanish cuervo  [details]
Swedish korp  [details]
Turkish kuzgun  [details]
Ukrainian Ворон  [details]
Ukrainian Крук  [details]
Welsh cigfran  [details]
Environment marine, brackish
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (29 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1546 publications)
To GenBank (246 nucleotides; 143 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: Length: 24" (61 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America [details]

Reproduction: found in North America from the far north in Greenland, Canada, and Alaska throughout Canada and south in the mountains to Georgia in the east and to central America in the west. Nests on rocky ledges and in trees. Breeds where ever it is found whether along the coast or inland forests. Eggs are laid from late March to early May [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159389
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159389 on 2013-05-24
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