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Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761) 
AphiaID: 137195

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Procellariiformes (Order) > Procellariidae (Family) > Fulmarus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Fulmarus Stephens, 1826
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Mammalia, Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes. Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae: L. Salvii, 48 + 578 pp. [details]

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: 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 mallemuk  [details]
Dutch noordse stormvogel  [details]
English fulmar  [details]
English northern fulmar  [details]
French fulmar boréal  [details]
French pétrel fulmar  [details]
German Eissturmvogel  [details]
Lithuanian šiaurinis fulmaras  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Αρκτικό θυελλοπούλι  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål havhest  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk havhest  [details]
Polish fulmar  [details]
Russian северный глупыш  [details]
Scottish Gaelic fulmaire  [details]
Slovenian ledni viharnik  [details]
Spanish fulmar boreal  [details]
Swedish stormfågel  [details]
Turkish kuzey fulmari  [details]
Ukrainian Буревісник кочівний  [details]
Ukrainian Північний фульмар  [details]
Welsh aderyn drycin y graig  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Iceland [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [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 (155 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (653 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (80 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: Length: 19" (48 cm); Wingspan: 42" (107 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America; Oceania; range extends from the Arctic to North Carolina [details]

Distribution: circum-arctic [details]

Reproduction: Breeds from Newfoundland, Baffin Island, Greenland, and the British Isles across northern Europe and Asia to Alaska. Winters at sea over the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. [details]
Images 
Fulmar
Fulmar
added on 2008-09-24 - author: Karl Van Ginderdeuren
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-04 09:26:49

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-04 09:26:53

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-04 09:27:01

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-04 09:27:16

Noordse stormvogel
Noordse stormvogel
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-04 09:27:22

Northern fulmar
Northern fulmar
added on 2011-02-11 - author: Hilary Moors ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-04 09:27:27

Fulmarus glacialis
Fulmarus glacialis
added on 2012-02-05 - author: VLIZ Collection
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-01-04 09:26:42
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137195
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). Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137195 on 2013-05-24
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