Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 148776

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Aves > Pelecaniformes > Sulidae > Morus

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Morus Vieillot, 1816
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: 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] 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: Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 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: 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]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   Danish sule  [details] Dutch Jan van Gent  [details] Dutch Jan-van-Gent  [details] English gannet  [details] English northern gannet  [details] French fou de bassan  [details] German Basstölpel  [details] Lithuanian šiaurinis padūkėlis  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Βόρεια σούλα  [details] Norwegian Bokmål havsule  [details] Norwegian Nynorsk havsule  [details] Polish głuptak  [details] Russian олуш  [details] Scottish Gaelic gainéad  [details] Slovenian strmoglavec  [details] Spanish alcatraz atlántico  [details] Swedish havssula  [details] Turkish sümsük kuşu  [details] Ukrainian Олуша північна  [details] Ukrainian Північна олуша  [details] Welsh hugan  [details]
Environment		marine
Distribution		Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (70 nucleotides; 67 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS
Images		Jan-van-gent added on 2008-03-21 - author: Karl Van Ginderdeuren qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:03 Jan-van-gent added on 2008-03-21 - author: Karl Van Ginderdeuren qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:17 Jan-van-gent added on 2008-03-21 - author: Karl Van Ginderdeuren qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:08 Morus bassanus added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:24 Morus bassanus added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:32 Morus bassanus added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:39 Morus bassanus added on 2010-01-09 - author: Collection Wim Decock () qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:45 Jan Van Gent added on 2010-06-04 - author: Adams, Yves qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:44:50 Morus bassanus - northern gannet added on 2011-01-04 - author: Nozères, Claude qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:43:55 Northern Gannet added on 2011-03-09 - author: Chardine, John qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:43:48 Northern Gannet added on 2011-03-10 - author: Chardine, John qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:43:39 Morus bassanus added on 2011-09-08 - author: Collection VLIZ qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:43:29 Jan-van-genten added on 2012-04-12 - author: Van Ginderdeuren, Karl qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-12-14 09:43:23
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148776
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-03-29 08:12:19Z   created   Claus, Simon 2011-04-08 06:18:06Z   checked   Adriaens, Peter
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		Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=148776 on 2013-05-26
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