Synthliboramphus wumizusume, Japanese murrelet
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Synthliboramphus wumizusume   (Temminck, 1836)

Japanese murrelet
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Aves | Charadriiformes | Alcidae

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

Others.  Subtropical; 48°N - 29°N, 124°E - 156°E (Ref. 125423)

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northwest Pacific: From Sakhalin, south to Izu Islands (Japan), west to North and South Korea and east to Hokkaido (Japan) and Kuril Islands. Subtropical to temperate.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 26.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 8812); max. published weight: 295.80 g (Ref. 356)

Short description Morphology

Culmen: 1.96 cm; tarsus: 1.805 cm; wing: 14.35 cm.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Similar diet to that of Ancient Murrelet. Plunge diving; warm-current waters; offshore, to the edge of the continental shelf; upwellings and converging currents (Ref. 356).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Carter, H.R., K. Ono, J.N. Fries, H. Hasegawa, M. Ueta, H. Higuchi, J.T. Moyer, L.K. Ochikubo Chan, L.N. de Forest, M. Hasegawa and G.B. van Vliet 2002 Status and conservation of the Japanese Murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume) in the Izu Islands, Japan. Journal of Yamashina Institute for Ornithology 33(2):61-87. (Ref. 6836)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

  Vulnerable (VU) (C2a(ii)); Date assessed: 07 August 2018

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Appendix I: Endangered migratory species

Threat to humans

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

Estimates based on models

Fishing Vulnerability
(Ref. 71543)		 Low vulnerability (16 of 100).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):		 Unknown.