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Catharacta maccormicki (Saunders, 1893) 
AphiaID: 159073

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Stercorariidae (Family) > Catharacta (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Stercorarius maccormicki Saunders, 1893
Rank Species
Parent Catharacta Brünnich, 1764
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983 [details]

basis of record: Grand Manan Whale and Seabird Research Station., available online at http://www.gmwsrs.org/main.htm [details]

basis of record: 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: Worthy, T. (2009). Aves (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English south polar skua  [details]
German Antarktik-Skua  [details]
German Südpolar-Skua  [details]
Lithuanian makormiko plėšikas  [details]
Polish wydrzyk antarktyczny  [details]
Slovenian antarktična govnačka  [details]
Spanish págalo polar  [details]
Turkish büyük güney kutbu martısı  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Maine [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications)
To ITIS
Notes  Breeding Category: Breeding [details]

Dimensions: Length: 21" (53 cm); Wingspan: 52" (132 cm) [details]

Distribution: North America; Oceania; range extends throughout the Canadian Atlantic to southern Florida [details]

Distribution: circum-antarctic [details]

IUCN Red List Category: Least Concern [details]
Images 
Skua (Catharacta maccormicki)
Skua (Catharacta maccormicki)
added on 2006-05-27 - author: José Luis Orgeira ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-10-26 09:03:29

Detail of skua
Detail of skua
added on 2007-06-10 - author: Erli Schneider Costa ()
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2012-10-26 09:04:05
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159073
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2011-04-04 14:27:54Z  changed  Adriaens, Peter
2011-04-27 09:01:37Z  changed  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Catharacta maccormicki (Saunders, 1893). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159073 on 2013-05-18
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