Brachyramphus marmoratus Original1 prepared by Alan Burger Species Information Taxonomy

• Main Authors: The Marbled Murrelet, Brachyramphus Marmoratus
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Coast; Campbell River; Chilliwack; North Coast; North Island; Queen Charlotte Islands; South Island; Squamish; Sunshine Coast Northern Interior; Kalum; Skeena Stikine Ecoprovinces and ecosections Terrestrial; Gaston; Queen Charlotte; Skeena; Stikine; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.618.4275; http://www.llbc.leg.bc.ca/public/pubdocs/bcdocs/370399/b_marbledmurrelet.pdf

is a member of the auk family (Alcidae). No sub-species are recognized in North America (AOU 1997). Some intraspecific morphological and molecular variation has been found among popu-lations of Marbled Murrelets (reviewed in Burger 2002). The small population in the western Aleutian Islands, Alaska,...