Olrog's Gull

SCI Name:  Larus atlanticus
Protonym:  Larus belcheri atlanticus ActaZoologicaLilloana 15 p.8
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae / Larus
Taxonomy Code:  olrgul1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Olrog
Publish Year:  1958
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

atlantica / atlanticus
L. Mare Atlanticus  Atlantic Ocean  < Atlas, Atlantis  Mt. Atlas, Mauretania  < Gr. myth. Atlas, Titan king of Mauretania condemned to bear the world on his shoulders; by association the name was subsequently given to the western ocean. Rare epithet for birds collected at sea in the Atlantic (e.g. syn. Thalassarche salvini), mainly indicating Atlantic coasts (e.g. of USA subsp. Anser caerulescens, subsp. Melospiza melodia; of Argentina Larus; of Brazil Xiphorhynchus) or islands (e.g. Barbados ‡subsp. Allenia fusca; Ascension I. subsp. Anous minutus; Tobago subsp. Chiroxiphia pareola).