Olrog’s Gull
Olrog's Gull
Here the details of the Olrog's Gull named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Larus belcheri atlanticus ActaZoologicaLilloana 15 p.8
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Laridae / Larus
Taxonomy Code: olrgul1
Type Locality:
Author: Olrog
Publish Year: 1958
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
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.
atlantica / atlanticus
L. Mare Atlanticus Atlantic Ocean < Atlas, Atlantis Mt. Atlas, Mauretania < Gr. myth. Atlas, Titan king of Mauretania condemned to bear the world on his shoulders; by association the name was subsequently given to the western ocean. Rare epithet for birds collected at sea in the Atlantic (e.g. syn. Thalassarche salvini), mainly indicating Atlantic coasts (e.g. of USA subsp. Anser caerulescens, subsp. Melospiza melodia; of Argentina Larus; of Brazil Xiphorhynchus) or islands (e.g. Barbados ‡subsp. Allenia fusca; Ascension I. subsp. Anous minutus; Tobago subsp. Chiroxiphia pareola).
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)