Stercorarius Parasiticus Bird
Stercorarius Parasiticus Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Larus parasiticus Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.136
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Stercorariidae / Stercorarius
Taxonomy Code: parjae
Type Locality: Within the Tropic of Cancer of Europe, America and Asia; restricted type locality, coast of Sweden.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
STERCORARIUS
(Stercorariidae; Ϯ Arctic Skua S. parasiticus) L. stercorarius of dung < stercus, stercoris dung; skuas pursue other seabirds until they disgorge their food, the disgorged food once thought to be excrement, hence a former name 'Dung-hunter'; "Stercorarius. Genus 101. ... **1. LE STERCORAIRE. ... STERCORARIUS" (Brisson 1760): based on "Arctick Bird" of Edwards 1750; "Stercorarius Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p.l 56; 6, p. 149. Type, by tautonymy, Stercorarius Brisson = Larus parasiticus Linné." (Peters 1934, II, 311).
Var. Stercoraria, Stercararius, Stercoreus.
Synon. Atalolestris, Cataracta, Coprotheres, Labbus, Lestris, Oceanus, Praedatrix.
stercorarius
L. stercorarius of dung < stercus, stercoris dung (syn. Neophron percnopterus).
parasiticus
L. parasiticus parasitic < Gr. παρασιτικος parasitikos parasitical < παραςιτος parasitos parasite.
● ex “Parasite” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 22 (syn. Milvus migrans parasitus).
● "69. LARUS. ... parasiticus. 6. L. rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis. Sterna rectricibus maximis nigris. Fn. svec. 129. It. Wgot. 182. Act. Stockh. 1753. p. 291. Avis norvegica Kyussa. Oel. mus. 1. f. 11. n. 20. Truen s. Fur. Barth. act. 1. p. 91. Coprotheres. Raj. av. 127. n. 2. Martens. spitz. 63. t. L. f. D. Avis arctica. Edw. av. 148. t. 148. & t. 149. f. 2. Habitat intra tropicum Cancri, Europæ, Americæ, Asiæ. Piscaturæ ineptus agitat congeneres, vomituque ejectum cibum arripit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Stercorarius).
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)