Stercorarius skua (Brunnich, 1764) 
AphiaID: 137174

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Aves > Charadriiformes > Stercorariidae > Stercorarius

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Stercorarius
Synonymised taxa		Catharacta skua Brünnich, 1764
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: 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] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Urban, E.K., C.H. Fry & S. Keith (1986). The Birds of Africa, Volume II. Academic Press, London. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Danish mtorkjove  [details] Dutch grote jager  [details] English bonxie (from synonym)  [details] English brown skua (from synonym)  [details] English great skua  [details] French grand labbe (from synonym)  [details] French grande labbe  [details] French stercoraire brun  [details] German große Raubmöwe (from synonym)  [details] German grosse Raul Möwe  [details] German Skua  [details] Icelandic skùmur  [details] Lithuanian didysis plėšikas (from synonym)  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Αετοληστόγλαρος  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Τρανοληστόγλαρος (from synonym)  [details] Norwegian Bokmål storjo  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk storjo  [details] Polish wydrzyk wielki (from synonym)  [details] Scottish Gaelic meirleach mór  [details] Slovenian velika govnačka (from synonym)  [details] Spanish págalo grande (from synonym)  [details] Swedish storlabb  [details] Turkish buyuk korsan marti (from synonym)  [details] Turkish büyük korsan martı (from synonym)  [details] Ukrainian Поморник великий  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Iceland [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Orkney Islands [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links		To Barcode of Life (20 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS
Images		Grote jager - Stercorarius skua added on 2008-03-21 - author: Karl Van Ginderdeuren qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-03-23 09:13:00 Stercorarius skua added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-03-23 09:13:12 Stercorarius skua added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-03-23 09:13:38
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137174
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2009-12-08 08:05:09Z   changed   Dewitte, Elien 2011-04-04 14:27:54Z   changed   Adriaens, Peter
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		Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Stercorarius skua (Brunnich, 1764). Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137174 on 2013-05-22
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