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WoRMS taxon details
Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 AphiaID: 159389
| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Corvus Linnaeus, 1758 |
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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]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish |
| Distribution | | Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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| 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
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| 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]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159389 |
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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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