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Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763) 
AphiaID: 137133

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Tetrapoda > Aves > Charadriiformes > Alcidae > Uria
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Uria Brisson, 1760
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: 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: Vanderperren, J.-P. (1991). Report Natural History Archive 1990 [Verslag Natuurhistorisch Archief 1990]. De Strandvlo 11(3): 65-75 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 75 [details]


additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [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 lomvie  [details]
Dutch dunsnavelige zeekoet  [details]
Dutch zeekoet  [details]
English (southern and northern) guillemot  [details]
English common guillemot  [details]
English common murre  [details]
English guillemot  [details]
English northern guillemot  [details]
French guillemot à capuchon  [details]
French guillemot de Troïl  [details]
German dumme Lumme  [details]
German Trottellumme  [details]
Icelandic langvîa  [details]
Lithuanian laibasnapis narūnėlis  [details]
Norwegian lomvi  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål lomvi  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk lomvi  [details]
Polish nurzyk  [details]
Polish nurzyk podbielały  [details]
Russian тонкоклювая кайра  [details]
Scottish Gaelic foracha  [details]
Slovenian lumna  [details]
Spanish arao común  [details]
Swedish sillgrissla  [details]
Turkish bayağı dalıcımartı  [details]
Ukrainian Кайра тонкодзьоба  [details]
Ukrainian Тонкодзьоба кайра  [details]
Welsh gwylog  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
De Haan [details]
English Coast [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Faroe Islands [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Iceland [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Northern North Atlantic [details]
Northern North Pacific [details]
Oostende [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Host of  Reighardia lomviae Dyck, 1975 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (85 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (565 nucleotides; 394 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: Length: 17 1/2" (45 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America; Labrador to Virginia [details]

Reproduction: Breeds on the coast and islands in the North Atlantic and North Pacific in Europe and Asia as well as in North America. On the Atlantic coast it Breeds from Greenland south to Nova Scotia, and on the Pacific coast from Alaska and eastern Asia to California; also from Iceland to northern France. Winters on the open ocean south in America to New jersey and in Europe to the Mediterranean. [details]
Images 
Common Guillemot - Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
Common Guillemot - Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763)
added on 2005-12-22 - author: VLIZ (Jan Seys)
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:49:49

Gebrilde zeekoet in zomerkleed na wasbeurt
Gebrilde zeekoet in zomerkleed na wasbeurt
added on 2008-02-01
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:50:05

Uria aalge
Uria aalge
added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:50:16

Uria aalge
Uria aalge
added on 2009-02-19 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:50:28

Alca torda & Uria aalge
Alca torda & Uria aalge
added on 2010-01-09 - author: Collection Wim Decock ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:50:55

Zeekoet
Zeekoet
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:51:58

Common Murres
Common Murres
added on 2011-03-07 - author: John Chardine ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:51:26

Common Murre
Common Murre
added on 2011-03-07 - author: John Chardine ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:51:39

Uria aalge
Uria aalge
added on 2011-09-08 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-09-21 09:50:44
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137133
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). Uria aalge (Pontoppidan, 1763). Accessed through: Kennedy, M.K., L. Van Guelpen, G. Pohle, L. Bajona (Eds.) (2013) Canadian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137133 on 2013-05-24
  
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