Glaucous-winged Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull / Larus glaucescens

Glaucous-winged Gull

Here the details of the Glaucous-winged Gull named bird below:

SCI Name:  Larus glaucescens
Protonym:  Larus glaucescens Naturgesch.Vog.Deutsch. 10 p.351
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae /
Taxonomy Code:  glwgul
Type Locality:  North America.
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Publish Year:  1840
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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.

glaucescens
Mod. L. glaucescens, glaucescentis  glaucous, somewhat glaucous  < L. glaucus  bluish-grey  < Gr. γλαυκος glaukos  bluish-grey, glaucous.