Smew

SCI Name:  Mergellus albellus
Protonym:  Mergus Albellus Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.129
Taxonomy:  Anseriformes / Anatidae / Mergellus
Taxonomy Code:  smew
Type Locality:  Europe; restricted to the Mediterranean near Smyrna by the reference to Hasselquist''s journey.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MERGELLUS
(Anatidae; Ϯ Smew M. albellus) Dim. < genus Mergus Linnaeus, 1758, merganser. "Genus Mergus, LINN.  *Mer. (Mergellus, SELBY.) albellus" (Selby 1840); "Mergellus Selby, Cat. Gen. and Subgen. Types Bds., 1840, p. 47. Type, by monotypy, Mergus albellus Linné." (Peters 1931, I, 185).
Var. Meregellus, Mergullus.
Synon. Albellus, Merganas.

albellus
Late Med. L. Albellus  Smew  < dim. L. albus  white; "62. MERGUS.  ...  Albellus.  4. M. crista dependente subtus nigra, corpore albo, dorso nigro, alis variegatis.  Mergus Tinus. Hasselq. iter. 268.  Mergus major cirrhatus. Raj. av. 135.  Serrator minimus, capite niveo, cervice genisque nigris. Klein. av. 140.  Albellus alter. Aldr. orn. l. 19. p. 378. Alb. av. I. p. 85. t. 89. Will. orn. 254. t. 64.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Mergellus).

Albellus
(Anatidae; syn. Mergellus Ϯ Smew M. albellus) Doubtless from specific name Mergus albellus Linnaeus, 1758 (see albellus); "Pied Smew.  Piette blanche, - Weisse Albelle.   Albellus maculosus, Wood" (Wood 1837); "Albellus C. T. Wood, 1837, Ornithological Guide, p. 209.  Type, by monotypy, Albellus maculosus Wood, 1837 = Mergus albellus Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Albella.