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Brachyramphus brevirostris   (Vigors, 1829)

Kittlitz's murrelet
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Japan country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Migrating and wintering near the islands of northern Japan (Ref. 126319).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.maff.go.jp/eindex.html
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Artukhin, Y.B., P.S. Vyatkin, A.V. Andreev, N.B. Konyukhov and T.I. Van Pelt, 2011
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

Aves > Charadriiformes (Shorebirds) > Alcidae ()

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Others.   Polar; 72°N - 50°N, 146°E - 130°W (Ref. 125423)

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

North Pacific and Arctic: From Sea of Okhotsk east to Alaska, north to Chukchi Sea and south to Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands. Temperate to polar.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 23.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8812); max. published weight: 295.80 g (Ref. 356)

Short description Morphology

Culmen: 1.96 cm; tarsus: 1.81 cm; wing: 13.98 cm.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Pursuit diving; continental shelf; <120 km; ice edges (Ref. 356).

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Kaler, R.S.A., L.A. Kenney and B.K. Sandercock. 2009. (Ref. 91837)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Near Threatened (NT) (A4ace); Date assessed: 07 August 2018

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 1.1 - 8, mean 5 (based on 220 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278) High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=30.12-49.15).
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (13 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.