Craveri’s Murrelet / Synthliboramphus craveri

Craveri\'s Murrelet / Synthliboramphus craveri

Craveri's Murrelet

SCI Name:  Synthliboramphus craveri
Protonym:  Uria Craveri AttiSoc.Ital.Sci.Nat.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Milano 8 p.387
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Alcidae /
Taxonomy Code:  cramur
Type Locality:  Gulf of California, lat. 27° 50'' 12'' N.; long. 110° 10'' 45'' W. = Raza Island.
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Publish Year:  1865
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DEFINITIONS

SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS
(Alcidae; Ϯ Ancient Murrelet S. antiquus) Gr. συνθλιβω sunthlibō  to compress  < συν sun, συμ sum  together; θλιβω thlibō  to squeeze; ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; "b. Subgen. Synthliboramphus Nob.  Rostrum breve, altum dilatatum, a latere inspectum fere ovale.   Spec. 5. Synthliboramphus antiquus Nob. — Alca antiqua Lath.; Uria antiqua Pall.   Spec. 6. Synthliboramphus Temminckii Nob. — Uria Wumizusume Temm. planch. col. tab. 579." (Brandt 1837); "Synthliboramphus M. Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersb., 2, 1837, col. 347. Type, by subsequent designation, Alca antiqua Gmelin. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 77.)" (Peters 1934, II, 356).
Var. Synthliborhamphus, Syntliborhamphus.
Synon. Endomychura, Micruria, Rhamphosynthlipsis.

craveri
Federico Craveri (1815-1890) and his brother Ettore Craveri (1816-1884) Italian meteorologists, collectors, naturalists in Mexico and California 1840-1859 (Synthliboramphus).