Spectacled Guillemot

Spectacled Guillemot / Cepphus carbo

Spectacled Guillemot

Here the details of the Spectacled Guillemot named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cepphus carbo
Protonym:  Cepphus Carbo Zoogr.Rosso-Asiat. 2 p.350
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Alcidae /
Taxonomy Code:  spegui1
Type Locality:  Aleutians, Unalaska and Kurile Islands; restricted type locality, Kurile Islands, the other two localities being erroneous.
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Publish Year:  1811
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DEFINITIONS

CEPPHUS
(Alcidae; Ϯ Black Guillemot C. grylle) Gr. κεπφος kepphos  unknown pale waterbird, later variously identified (e.g. storm-petrel, gull, gannet, auk), mentioned by Aristotle, Dionysius, Hesychius, and others; "CEPPHVS LACTEOLUS.   Avibus aquaticis novis jure infero avem nullibi apud Ornithologos memoratam, mihique semel omnino visam, marinam, ex earum genere, quas omnium primus, a Colymbis (rostro nimium similibus, sed defectu caudae et structura singulari pedum diversissimis) optimo jure distinxit MOEHRINGIVS, Cepphos appellans; quas dein BRISSONIVS in duo genera, tridactylum Uriae, et digito postico minuto praeditum Mergi minutiose dispescuit; KLEINIVS vero inter Plautos et Plotos suos atque inter Colymbos LINNAEVS recensuerunt.  ...  Magnitudo querquedulae seu Cepphi Grylle dicti, adeoque longe infra C. Lomviam." (Pallas 1769); "Cepphus Pallas, Spic. Zool., 1, fasc. 5, 1769, p. 33. Type, by monotypy, Cepphus lacteolus Pallas = Alca grylle Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 353).
Var. Chephus, Cephus.
Synon. Grylle, Plautus, Pseuduria, Uria.
● (Gaviidaesyn. Gavia Ϯ Black-throated Diver G. arctica) "76. CEPPHUS.*  Colymbi species. LINN. ed. 6. gen. 51.  Colymbi caudati. WILL. & RAI.   Des. Rostrum subulatum, rectum.  Mandibula inferior ad gutturis principium obiter angulosa: angulo obiter sulcato.  Nares lineari-oblongæ.  Cauda brevissima.  Femora intra abdomen, pone æquilibrium ad podicem posita, ut perpendiculari fere corpore incedere cogatur.  Digiti antici tres, membrana intermedia toti cohærentes: posticus solutus, adpendice membranaceo auctus." (Moehring 1752); "WITTE ZEE-MEEUW, in 't Latyn Cepphus.  LINNÆUS. Syst. Nat. gesl. 51 [Colymbus].  Gestaarte Duikeren van WILLUGHBY & RAY" (Moehring 1758).
● (Scopidaesyn. Scopus Ϯ Hamerkop S. umbretta) "GENUS CEPPHUS.*  ... *) Kεπφος Arat.  Avis quaedam palustris, ex ardeae (?) genere. (Nomen a cl. Pallasio pro genere Uria Brissonii et auctorum adhibitum.) Scopus (nomen solum specificum) Briss., Gmel., Lath., Cuv., Lacép., Illig., Vieill., Temm.  ... 1. C. Scopus.  ... Scopus Briss. Ornith. 5. p. 505. (Descript. opt.) Ombrette du Senegal Buff. pl. enl. n. 796. (Fig. mediocr.) Scopus Umbretta Auctor. Lath. Synops. 5. t. 40 (fig. inaccurata)" (Wagler 1827); "Cepphus Wagler, 1827, Systema Avium, p. [145].  Type, by monotypy, Scopus umbretta auct., i.e. Gmelin, 1789." (JAJ 2021).

cepphus
Gr. κεπφος kepphos  pale unknown waterbird, later variously identified (syn. Stercorarius parasiticus).

carbo
L. carbo, carbonis  charcoal (i.e. black).
● “C. tridactylus, totus niger” (Pallas 1811) (Cepphus).
● "66. PELECANUS.  ...  Carbo.  3. P. cauda æquali, corpore nigro, rostro edentulo.  Pelecanus corpore atro, subtus albicante, rectricibus quatuordecim. Fn. svec. 116.  Carbo aquaticus. Gesn. av. 137.  Cervus [sic] aquaticus. Aldr. orn. l. 19. c. 55. Jonst. av. t. 47. Will. orn. 248. t. 63. Raj. av. 122. Mars. danub. 16. t. 36. Alb. av. 2. p. 74. t. 81.  Habitat in Europa; nidificat in altis arboribusCauda longior & laxior quam in reliquis aquaticis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Phalacrocorax).

Carbo
(Phalacrocoracidae; syn. Phalacrocorax Great Cormorant P. carbo) Specific name Pelecanus carbo Linnaeus, 1758; "VINGT-HUITIÈME ORDRE.  Bec crochu.  ...  96. CORMORAN. Carbo.  { Le bec un peu comprimé; la queue très-roide." (de Lacépède 1799); "Carbo Lacépède, Tabl. Méth. Mam. Ois., p. 15, 1799—type, by tautonymy, Pelecanus carbo Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 137).