Scripps’s Murrelet
Scripps's Murrelet
Here the details of the Scripps's Murrelet named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Endomychura hypoleuca scrippsi Condor 41 p.28
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Alcidae / Synthliboramphus
Taxonomy Code: xanmur2
Type Locality:
Author: Green & Arnold
Publish Year: 1939
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS
(Alcidae; Ϯ Ancient Murrelet S. antiquus) Gr. συνθλιβω sunthlibō to compress < συν sun, συμ sum together; θλιβω thlibō to squeeze; ῥαμφος rhamphos bill; "b. Subgen. Synthliboramphus Nob. Rostrum breve, altum dilatatum, a latere inspectum fere ovale. Spec. 5. Synthliboramphus antiquus Nob. — Alca antiqua Lath.; Uria antiqua Pall. Spec. 6. Synthliboramphus Temminckii Nob. — Uria Wumizusume Temm. planch. col. tab. 579." (Brandt 1837); "Synthliboramphus M. Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersb., 2, 1837, col. 347. Type, by subsequent designation, Alca antiqua Gmelin. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 77.)" (Peters 1934, II, 356).
Var. Synthliborhamphus, Syntliborhamphus.
Synon. Endomychura, Micruria, Rhamphosynthlipsis.
scrippsae / scrippsi
● Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932) English/US philanthropist, newspaper owner, founder of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California 1903 (syn. Dendrocopos villosus hyloscopus).
● Robert Paine Scripps (1895-1938) US newspaper owner (Synthliboramphus).
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)