Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Here the details of the Ring-billed Gull named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Larus Delawarensis Geogr.[Guthrie]ed.2(Am.) ed.2(Am.), 2 p.319
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Laridae / Larus
Taxonomy Code: ribgul
Type Locality: Delaware River, below Philadelphia.
Author: Ord
Publish Year: 1815
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.
delawarensis
Delaware River, USA.
● "Ϯ Toothed-bill G[ull]. . L[arus]. Delawarensis. ... Ϯ This is a beautiful Gull, and was discovered on the Delaware below Philadelphia; it is a nondescript." (Ord in Guthrie 1815) (Larus).
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)