Japanese Murrelet / Synthliboramphus wumizusume
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Japanese Murrelet
SCI Name:
Protonym: Uria wumizusume Pl.Col. livr.98 pl.579
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Alcidae / Synthliboramphus
Taxonomy Code: japmur1
Type Locality: Shores of Japan and Korea.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1836
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
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.
wumizusume
Japanese name Umisuzume sea sparrow, for the Crested Murrelet (Synthliboramphus).
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)
