Yellow-legged Gull

SCI Name:  Larus michahellis
Protonym:  Larus Michahelles Naturgesch.Vog.Deutsch. 10 p.382
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae / Larus
Taxonomy Code:  yelgul1
Type Locality:  Coast of Dalmatia.
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.

michahelles / michahellesi / michahellesii / michahellii / michahellis
Dr Georg Christian Karl Wilhelm Michahelles (1807-1834) German zoologist, collector in Dalmatia 1829-1832 and Greece 1834 (Larus, syn. Larus melanocephalus, syn. Monticola solitarius).

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-legged Gull (atlantis)
SCI Name: Larus michahellis atlantis
atlantis
Gr. myth. Atlantis, the celebrated vanished island (see Atlantisia) (syn. Cepphus grylle arcticus, syn. Columba livia, syn. Gypaetus barbatus, subsp. Larus michahelles, syn. Sylvia atricapilla gularis).

Yellow-legged Gull (michahellis)
SCI Name: Larus michahellis michahellis
michahelles / michahellesi / michahellesii / michahellii / michahellis
Dr Georg Christian Karl Wilhelm Michahelles (1807-1834) German zoologist, collector in Dalmatia 1829-1832 and Greece 1834 (Larus, syn. Larus melanocephalus, syn. Monticola solitarius).