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Stercorariidae (skua)
Taxonomy
Stercorariidae was named by Brisson (1760). It is extant.
It was assigned to Laroidea by Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Charadriiformes by Carroll (1988), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Warheit (2002), Dyke and Walker (2005), Smith (2011), Clements et al. (2017); and to Lari by Wetmore (1956), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Mayr (2022).
It was assigned to Laroidea by Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Charadriiformes by Carroll (1988), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Warheit (2002), Dyke and Walker (2005), Smith (2011), Clements et al. (2017); and to Lari by Wetmore (1956), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Mayr (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1760 | Stercorariidae Brisson |
| 1956 | Stercorariidae Wetmore p. 76 |
| 1988 | Stercorariidae Carroll |
| 2001 | Stercorariidae Olson and Rasmussen p. 265 |
| 2002 | Stercorariidae Warheit p. 36 figs. Appendix 2.1 |
| 2005 | Stercorariidae Dyke and Walker p. 240 |
| 2007 | Stercorariidae Livezey and Zusi p. 92 |
| 2011 | Stercorariidae Smith p. 30 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2014 | Stercorariidae del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Stercorariidae Clements et al. |
| 2022 | Stercorariidae Mayr p. 77 figs. Fig. 5.2 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Stercorariidae Brisson 1760 [skua]
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G. Stercorarius Brisson 1760
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Stercorarius antarcticus Lesson 1831 [brown skua]
Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi Mathews 1912 [subantarctic skua]
Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot 1819 [long-tailed jaeger]
Stercorarius maccormicki Saunders 1893 [south polar skua]
Stercorarius parasiticus Linnaeus 1758 [parasitic jaeger]
Stercorarius pomarinus Temminck 1815 [pomarine jaeger]
†Stercorarius shufeldti Howard 1946
Stercorarius skua Brünnich 1764 [great skua]
Invalid names: Catharacta Brünnich 1764 [synonym], Lestris Temminck 1815 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Holocene or 5.33300 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (20 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Catharacta sp., Stercorarius pomarinus, Stercorarius parasiticus, Stercorarius longicaudus (52582) | |
| Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | Stercorarius sp. (22712) | |
| Rancholabrean (glacial) | USA (California) | Stercorarius sp. (20624) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain (Santander) | Stercorarius pomarius (125320) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Catharacta skua (122309) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Oregon) | Stercorarius schufeldti (93251) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom | Stercorarius longicaudus (124956) | |
| Holocene | Venezuela | Stercorarius sp. (197936) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Macquarie Island) | Catharacta skua (194607) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Nunavut) | Stercorarius longicaudus (229484) Stercorarius sp. (160848 228927 229489) | |
| Holocene | Antarctica | Catharacta antarctica (90111) Catharacta antarctica, Catharacta maccormicki (177180) Catharacta sp., Stercorarius antarcticus (177151) | |
| Holocene | New Zealand | Catharacta antarctica (194619 195150) Catharacta skua (194616) Stercorarius parasiticus (100554) |