Black-billed Gull
Black-billed Gull
Here the details of the Black-billed Gull named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Larus bulleri Cat.BirdsN.Z. p.41
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Laridae / Chroicocephalus
Taxonomy Code: blbgul1
Type Locality: New Zealand.
Author: Hutton, FW
Publish Year: 1871
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
Chroicocephalus
(Laridae; syn. Larus † Black-headed Gull L. ridibundus) Gr. χρωικος khrōikos coloured < χρωζω khrōzō to colour, to stain; -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head; "SUB GENUS 3. CHROICOCEPHALUS. Nobis. Sp. 1. C. CAPISTRATUS. Temminck. Syn. Larus Capistratus, Temm. Jenyns. Mouette a Mosque [sic] Brun, Temm. Brown-headed Gull, Eyton. Sp. 2. C. RIDIBUNDUS. Linnæus. Syn. Larus Ridibundus, Lath. Shaw, Linn. Gmel. L. Cinerarius Linn. Gmel. Gavia Ridibunda Phænicopos, Briss. L. Cinereus, Ray. Will. La Mouette Rieuse ou à Capuchon Brun, Temm. Le Mouette Rieuse, and Le Petite Mouette Cendrée, Buff. Black-headed Gull, and Red-legged Gull, Penn. Lath. Bewick. Sp. 3. C. MINUTUS. Pallas. Syn. Larus Minutus, Pall. Gmel. Shaw, Temm. L. Atricilloides, Gmel. Mouette Pygmiée [sic], Temm. Little Gull, English Authors." (Eyton 1836); "Chroicocephalus for a new subgenus under Larus, Linn., for the reception of such gulls as have the tarsi slender, thighs considerably denuded, hind toe very small, head only, or head and upper part of neck, dark-coloured in the summer state of plumage ... derived from two Greek words, κροικος, coloured, and κεφαλη, head; signifying that the birds classed under that name have coloured heads" (Eyton per Wharton 1878); "Chroicocephalus Eyton, Hist. Rar. Brit. Bds., Cat., p. 53, 1836—type, by subs. desig. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., p. 79, 1840), Larus capistratus Temminck = Larus ridibundus Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (3), p. 253).
Var. Chroecocephalus, Chroeocephalus, Chroiococephalus, Chroiocephalus, Chraeococephalus, Chraecocephalus, Chroocephalus, Croicocephalus, Kroikocephalus, Kroicocephalus, Krokocephalus.
bulleri
● Sir Walter Lawry Buller (1838-1906) New Zealand barrister, ornithologist, collector (syn. Anthochaera carunculata (ex Mimus carunculatus Buller, 1865), syn. Apteryx mantelli, Ardenna, Larus (ex Bruchigavia melanorhyncha Buller, 1869), syn. Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus, syn. Petroica australis, Thalassarche).
● Kenneth Gordon Buller (1915-1995) English collector, emigrated to Australia 1926, taxidermist at Western Australian Mus., Perth (syn. Pachycephala lanioides carnarvoni).
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)