Biology:Ichthyaetus
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Short description: Genus of birds
Ichthyaetus | |
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Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Laridae |
Subfamily: | Larinae |
Genus: | Ichthyaetus Kaup, 1829 |
Type species | |
Larus ichthyaetus (Pallas, 1773)
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Species | |
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Ichthyaetus is a genus of gulls. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ikhthus, "fish", and aetos, "eagle".[1] They were previously included in the genus Larus.[2]
Species
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Sooty gull | Ichthyaetus hemprichii | Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Maldives, Mozambique, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. | |
Great black-headed (or Pallas's) gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | Breeds in Central Asia and Ukraine, winters in Arabia and India. | |
Audouin's gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa and the Iberian peninsula | |
Mediterranean gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | the Black Sea and the eastern Mediterranean this species has now expanded over most of Europe as far as Great Britain and Ireland | |
Relict gull | Ichthyaetus relictus | Mongolia, two in Kazakhstan, one in Russia, and one in China (Lake Hongjiannao) | |
White-eyed gull | Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus | Throughout Red Sea |
References
- ↑ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling.
- ↑ Pons J.M., Hassanin, A., and Crochet P.A.(2005). Phylogenetic relationships within the Laridae (Charadriiformes: Aves) inferred from mitochondrial markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(3):686–699
Wikidata ☰ Q639312 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyaetus.
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