Glaucous-winged Gull / Larus glaucescens
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Glaucous-winged Gull
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Protonym: Larus glaucescens Naturgesch.Vog.Deutsch. 10 p.351
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Laridae / Larus
Taxonomy Code: glwgul
Type Locality: North America.
Author: Naumann, JF
Publish Year: 1840
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LARUS
(Laridae; Ϯ Great Black-backed Gull L. marinus) L. larus rapacious seabird, probably a gull < Gr. λαρος laros voracious seabird, perhaps a gull; the Great Black-backed Gull, the largest member of the Laridae, breeds only on sea coasts, where it is a true predator; "69. LARUS. Rostrum edentulum, rectum, cultratum, apice declive: Mandibula inferior infra apicem gibba. Nares lineares, antice latiores. ... Pulli primi anni plurumque in his grisei sunt; unde speciei multiplicatio." (Linnaeus 1758); "Larus Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 136. Type, by subsequent designation, Larus marinus Linné (Selby, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Types Aves, 1840, p. 48)" (Peters 1934, II, 313). Linnaeus's Larus comprised six species (L. tridactylus, L. canus, L. marinus, L. fuscus, L. Atricilla, L. parasiticus).
Synon. Adelarus, Atricilla, Blasipus, Bruchigavia, Caturates, Chroicocephalus, Cirrhocephala, Clupeilarus, Dominicanus, Einalia, Epitelarus, Gabianus, Gavia, Gavina, Gelastes, Glaucus, Hydropeleia, Ichthyaetus, Lambruschinia, Laroides, Lencus, Leucophaeus, Melagavia, Melanolarus, Microlarus, Misamichus, Ocyplanus, Pacificolarus, Plautus, Procellarus.
glaucescens
Mod. L. glaucescens, glaucescentis glaucous, somewhat glaucous < L. glaucus bluish-grey < Gr. γλαυκος glaukos bluish-grey, glaucous.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
