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Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 137141

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Tetrapoda (Superclass) > Aves (Class) > Charadriiformes (Order) > Laridae (Family) > Larus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Larus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Tetrapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 375-376 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian pulëbardha e përhimtë  [details]
Bulgarian Чайка буревестница  [details]
Danish stormmåge  [details]
Dutch stormmeeuw  [details]
English common gull  [details]
English mew gull  [details]
French goéland cendré  [details]
German Sturmmöwe  [details]
Hebrew שחף אפרורי  [details]
Italian gavina  [details]
Lithuanian paprastasis kiras  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Θυελλόγλαρος  [details]
Norwegian fiskemåke  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål fiskemåke  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk fiskemåse  [details]
Polish mewa pospolita  [details]
Romanian pescăruşul sur  [details]
Russian сизая чайка  [details]
Scottish Gaelic faoileán bán  [details]
Slovenian sivi galeb  [details]
Spanish gaviota cana  [details]
Swedish fiskmås  [details]
Turkish kucuk gumus Marti  [details]
Turkish küçük gümüş martı  [details]
Ukrainian Мартин сивий  [details]
Ukrainian Мартин сизий  [details]
Welsh gwylan y gweunydd  [details]
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 Subspecies Larus canus canus Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies Larus canus heinei Homeyer, 1853
Subspecies Larus canus kamtschatschensis Bonaparte, 1857
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North America [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Northern Eurasia [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (17 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1089 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (401 nucleotides; 289 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 


added on 2008-08-25 - author: FRANCOIS Roland
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-05 09:07:57

Larus canus
Larus canus
added on 2009-02-18 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-05 09:08:02

Stormmeeuw
Stormmeeuw
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Decleer, Misjel
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-05 09:08:07

Common Gull (Larus canus)
Common Gull (Larus canus)
added on 2011-09-15 - author: Lowry, Roy
qualitystatus: checked by Tasker, Mark on 2013-04-05 09:08:12
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137141
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-04-08 06:18:06Z  checked  Adriaens, Peter
  
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  Citation: Adriaens, P. (2013). Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137141 on 2013-05-25
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