Larus canus subsp. major Middendorff 1853 ...

• Main Author: Mlíkovský, Ji Ř Í
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Charadriiformes; Laridae; Larus; Larus canus; Larus canus major middendorff, 1853; okhotsk sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6167424; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6167424

Larus canus major Middendorff, 1853 Middendorff (1853: 243) described this form as Larus canus var. major on the basis of birds recorded by him in 1843–1844 in the Stanovoy Mountains and at Okhotsk Sea. Brodkorb (1936: 122) restricted the type locality to the western slopes of Stanovoy Mountains and suggested that Larus canus major Middendorff, 1853, is a junior secondary homonym of Laroides major C.L. Brehm (1831: 738) = Larus argentatus Pontoppidan (1763: 622). To the best of my knowledge, C.L. Brehm's Laroides major has never been "published in combination with the same generic name" (Art. 53.3 of the Code), i.e. Larus Linnaeus (1758: 136). Ridgway’s (1919: 580) incorrect statement that G.R. Gray (1840: 78) designated Larus major C.L. Brehm as the type species of the genus Laroides C.L. Brehm (1830: col. 993) cannot be understood as a transfer of C.L. Brehm’s major to the genus Larus (G.R. Gray 1840: 78 wrote L. major).Thus, Laroides major C.L. Brehm and Larus canus major Middendorff are not secondary ... : Published as part of Mlíkovský, Ji Ř Í, 2012, Nomenclatural notes on the East Asian form of the Mew Gull Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves: Laridae), pp. 65-68 in Zootaxa 3356 on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210789 ...