Belcher's Gull

SCI Name:  Larus belcheri
Protonym:  Larus Belcheri Zool.J. 4 p.358
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae / Larus
Taxonomy Code:  belgul
Type Locality:  No locality given.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1829
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.

belcheri
● Sir Charles Frederic Belcher (1876-1970) Australian jurist, ornithologist, founder member of RAOU, Attorney-Gen. in Nyasaland 1920-1927, Chief Justice of Cyprus 1927-1930, Chief Justice of Trinidad & Tobago 1930-1937 (subsp. Cryptolybia olivacea, subsp. Geokichla guttata, syn. Hylacola pyrrhopygia, Pachyptila, syn. Pelecanoides urinatrix, syn. Poecilodryas cerviniventris, syn. Poephila personata, syn. Thalassarche melanophris).
● Adm. Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877) Royal Navy, explorer on the Pacific coast of America 1825-1828, in the Arctic 1852-1854 (Larus).