Japanese Murrelet
Synthliboramphus wumizusume(Temminck, CJ, 1836)
English (US) Japanese Murrelet
The Japanese Murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, and Murres) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds western North Pacific coasts and islands from off western Honshu, Kyushu, and Izu Is. (central and southern Japan), south of Korean Peninsula, and perhaps far southeastern Russia; winters Hokkaido to southeastern JapanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Synthliboramphus wumizusume
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Japanese Murrelet
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1836)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Uria wumizusume
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1836)
- Type locality
- Shores of Japan and Korea.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.98, vol.5 pl.579
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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