Common Murre

SCI Name:  Uria aalge
Protonym:  Colymbus aalge Dansk.Atlas 1 p.621 pl.26
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Alcidae / Uria
Taxonomy Code:  commur
Type Locality:  Iceland.
Author:  Pontoppidan
Publish Year:  1763
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

URIA
(Alcidae; Ϯ Common Guillemot U. aalge) Gr. ουρια ouria  kind of waterfowl mentioned by Athenaeus; "Alca. Genus 94.  ...  **1. LE GUILLEMOT.  ...  URIA.  ...   Les Grecs l'appellent ουρια" (Brisson 1760): based on 'Uria' of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, and Jonston 1650, "Lomvia" of Clusius 1605, Nieremberg 1635, Willughby 1676, and Sibbald 1684, "Jomuvia" of Charleton 1668, "Lomben" of Klein 1750, "Cataractes" of Moehring 1752, and Alca Lomvia Linnaeus, 1758; "Uria Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p. 52; 6, p. 70. Type, by tautonymy, Uria Brisson = Colymbus aalge Pontoppidan." (Peters 1934, II, 352).
Synon. Cataractes, Lomvia, Mergus.
● (syn. Cepphus Ϯ Black Guillemot C. grylle) "GENVS L.  VRIA.  Schaeff. Ornith. Tab. VIII. F. 4. 5. No. 31.   191. Uria Grylle.  Le petit Guillemot noir appellé vulgairement Colombe de Groenland.  Grönländische Taube.  TAB. XXXII.   Uria nigricans; tectricibus alarum superioribus mediis, et maioribus corpori finitimis candidis; rectricibus nigricantibus.  ...  Linn. S. N. 12. 220. 1.  Colymbus Grylle." (Schaeffer 1789).

aalge
Danish name Aalge for an auk  < Old Norse Alka  auk (Uria).

SUBSPECIES

Common Murre (aalge)
SCI Name: Uria aalge aalge
aalge
Danish name Aalge for an auk  < Old Norse Alka  auk (Uria).

Common Murre (albionis)
SCI Name: Uria aalge albionis
albionis
L. Albion, Albionis  Britain  < albus  white.

Common Murre (inornata)
SCI Name: Uria aalge inornata
inornata / inornatum / inornatus
L. inornatus  plain, unadorned  < in-  not; ornatus  adorned, decorated  < ornare  to adorn.
● See: mavornata

Common Murre (californica)
SCI Name: Uria aalge californica
californiana / californianus / californica
California  < myth. Queen Calafia, who ruled an island paradise rich in gold and peopled by Amazons, created (c. 1500) by Spanish novelist Rodriguez de Montalvo.
● Alta California, Mexico (Aphelocoma, Geococcyx).
● California, USA (syn. Buteo regalis).
● Alta California, New Spain (Callipepla, Gymnogyps).