Stercorarius Pomarinus Bird

English Name:  Pomarine Jaeger
Latin Name:  Stercorarius pomarinus
Protonym:  Lestris pomarinus Man.Orn.[Temminck].ed.1(1814) ed.1(1814) p.514
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Stercorariidae / Stercorarius
Taxonomy Code:  pomjae
Type Locality:  Arctic regions of Europe.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1815
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).

pomarinus / pomarius
Gr. πωμα pōma, πωματος pōmatos  lid, cover; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos  nostrils.

Pomarinus
(syn. Catharacta Ϯ Great Skua C. skua) Gr. πωμα pōma, πωματος pōmatos  lid, cover; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos  nostrils; "81. b.  Pomarin, Pomarin, Pomarinus.  Die Oeffnungen der Nasenlöcher unter einem Deckel gestellt; vier vier Zehen an jedem Fuße.  Zwei Beispiele.  Der braune, Pomarin brun, P. Fuscus.  Ein neues Geschlecht, welches Lacépède erst neuerlich aufgestellt hat" (Fischer von Waldheim 1803).