Little Gull

SCI Name:  Hydrocoloeus minutus
Protonym:  Larus minutus ReiseVersch.Provin.Russ.Reichs 3 p.702
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae / Hydrocoloeus
Taxonomy Code:  litgul
Type Locality:  Rivers of Siberia and in Russia, restricted type locality, Beresov, Tobolsk, Siberia, fide Ridgway, op. cit., p. 650.
Author:  Pallas
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYDROCOLOEUS
(Laridae; † Little Gull H. minutus) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro-  water-  < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos  water; κολοιος koloios  bird variously identified as a Jackdaw or a type of web-footed bird, perhaps a cormorant; "2. Larus minutus, plumbiceps.   ...   2. Dohlenmöve. Hydrocoloeus*).  (Larus minutus et plumbiceps).  E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Larus.  Ch[arakter]. Möven mit braunem Kopf und weißen Flecken an den Augen.  L[ebensart]. Sie leben von Insekten.  ...  *) ὑδορ, Wasser; κολοιος, Dohle.   ...   Uebersicht  ...  243. Hydrocoloeus (L. minutus, plumbiceps)." (Kaup 1829); "Hydrocoloeus Kaup, Skizz. Entw.-Gesch. Nat. Syst. Eur. Thierw., pp. 113, 196, 1829—type, by subs. desig. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 2nd ed., App., p. 15, 1841), Larus minutus Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (3), p. 253).
Var. Hydrocolaeus.
Synon. Gavia.

minutum / minutus
L. minutus  little  < minuere  to make smaller (see also minuta).
● ex “Becque Fleur” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 124 (Anthoscopus).
● ex “Lesser Ibis” (= ☼) of Edwards 1764 (syn. Eudocimus ruber).
● ex “Petit Râle de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 847, and “Little Rail” of Latham 1785 (syn. Hapalocrex flaviventer).
● ex “Little Brown Bittern” of Edwards 1760, and “Blongios” of Brisson 1760 (Ixobrychus).
● "62. MERGUS.  ...  minutus.  5. M. capite griseo lævi. Fn. svec. 115.  Te wezel-coot. Alb. av. l. p. 84. t. 88.  Habitat in Europa.  In alis macula atra, antice & postice alba." (Linnaeus 1758) (syn. Mergellus albellus ♀).
● ex “Petit Gobe-mouche tacheté de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 831, fig. 2 (syn. Myrmotherula brachyura).