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Stercorarius
Taxonomy
Stercorarius was named by Brisson (1760) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-m R Sepkoski's reference number: 1066]. It is extant.
It was assigned to Charadriiformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Laridae by Mlikovsky (2002); and to Stercorariidae by Wetmore (1956), Carroll (1988), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Warheit (2002), Dyke and Walker (2005), Smith (2011), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Charadriiformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Laridae by Mlikovsky (2002); and to Stercorariidae by Wetmore (1956), Carroll (1988), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Warheit (2002), Dyke and Walker (2005), Smith (2011), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1760 | Stercorarius Brisson |
1764 | Catharacta Brünnich |
1815 | Lestris Temminck |
1956 | Stercorarius Wetmore p. 76 |
1988 | Stercorarius Carroll |
2001 | Catharacta Olson and Rasmussen p. 266 |
2001 | Stercorarius Olson and Rasmussen p. 266 |
2002 | Stercorarius Mlikovsky p. 138 |
2002 | Stercorarius Sepkoski |
2002 | Catharacta Warheit p. 36 |
2002 | Stercorarius Warheit p. 36 figs. Appendix 2.1 |
2005 | Stercorarius Dyke and Walker p. 240 |
2011 | Stercorarius Smith p. 30 figs. Figure 14 |
2014 | Catharacta del Hoyo et al. |
2014 | Stercorarius del Hoyo et al. |
2017 | Stercorarius Clements et al. |
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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.
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, 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 (21 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Catharacta sp., S. pomarinus, S. parasiticus, S. longicaudus (52582) | |
Piacenzian | USA (Florida) | S. sp. (22712) | |
Rancholabrean (glacial) | USA (California) | S. sp. (20624) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom | S. longicaudus (124956) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain (Santander) | S. pomarius (125320) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Catharacta skua (122309) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Oregon) | S. schufeldti (93251) | |
Holocene | Venezuela | S. sp. (197936) | |
Holocene | French Southern Territories | Catharacta skua (194621) | |
Holocene | Canada (Nunavut) | S. longicaudus (229484) S. sp. (160848 228927 229489) | |
Holocene | Antarctica | Catharacta antarctica (90111) Catharacta antarctica, Catharacta maccormicki (177180) Catharacta sp., S. antarcticus (177151) | |
Holocene | New Zealand | Catharacta antarctica (194616 194619 195150) S. parasiticus (100554) | |
Holocene | Australia (Macquarie Island) | Catharacta antarctica (194607) |