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Stercorarius Brisson, 1760
Taxonomic Serial No.: 176791

Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Catharacta Brünnich, 1764
	Common Name(s):	Jaegers [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2011

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Tetrapoda
	Class	Aves – Birds, oiseaux
	Order	Charadriiformes – Shore Birds, Gulls, Alcids, Plovers, Oystercatchers, goélands, alcidés, Auks, huîtriers
	Family	Stercorariidae – sternes, Skuas
	Genus	Stercorarius Brisson, 1760 – Jaegers
		Direct Children:
	Species	Stercorarius antarcticus (Lesson, 1831) – Subantarctic Skua, Brown Skua
	Species	Stercorarius chilensis Bonaparte, 1857 – Chilean Skua
	Species	Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, 1819 – Salteador cola larga, Long-tailed Jaeger, Labbe à longue queue
	Species	Stercorarius maccormicki H. Saunders, 1893 – Labbe de McCormick, Págalo sureño, South Polar Skua
	Species	Stercorarius parasiticus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Salteador parásito, Parasitic Jaeger, Labbe parasite
	Species	Stercorarius pomarinus (Temminck, 1815) – Salteador pomarino, Pomarine Jaeger, Pomarine Skua, Labbe pomarin
	Species	Stercorarius skua (Brunnich, 1764) – Great Skua, Grand Labbe

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:	Alan P. Peterson, M.D.
	Notes:	PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999
	Reference for:	Stercorarius

	Expert:	Richard C. Banks
	Notes:	Chief, Bird Section, U.S.G.S. - B.R.D. - P.W.R.C.
	Reference for:	Stercorarius

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Stercorarius

	Source:	Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2011.04.02, website (version 02-Apr-11)
	Acquired:	2011
	Notes:	"Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource" maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net
	Reference for:	Stercorarius

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes
	Publication Date:	2003
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
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	Publisher:
	Publication Place:
	ISBN/ISSN:
	Notes:	As-yet (2003) unpublished manuscript from 1998
	Reference for:	Stercorarius

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner
	Publication Date:	1987
	Article/Chapter Title:	Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Resource Publication, no. 166
	Page(s):	79
	Publisher:	United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service
	Publication Place:	Washington, D.C., USA
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	Reference for:	Stercorarius

Geographic Information


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Comments


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