UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Stercorarius antarcticus (Lesson, 1831)

URMO taxon details

Stercorarius antarcticus (Lesson, 1831)

Stercorarius antarcticus

AphiaID

567471 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:567471)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Stercorarius Brisson, 1760

Synonymised names

Catharacta antarctica (Lesson, 1831) · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

marine, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

URMO (2021). Stercorarius antarcticus (Lesson, 1831). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567471 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Stercorarius antarcticus (Lesson, 1831). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567471 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-04-04 14:27:54Z

created

Adriaens, Peter

[taxonomic tree]

additional source Phillips, L.M., R.I. Leihy & S.L. Chown. (2022). Improving species-based area protection in Antarctica. <em>Conservation Biology.</em> 36(4): e13885.Aug 2022., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13885 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Language	Name
English	Antarctic skua [from synonym]	[details]

To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Stercorarius antarcticus

Catharacta antarctica

Stercorarius antarcticus