Synthliboramphus Scrippsi Bird

English Name:  Scripps's Murrelet
Latin Name:  Synthliboramphus scrippsi
Protonym:  Endomychura hypoleuca scrippsi Condor 41 p.28
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Alcidae / Synthliboramphus
Taxonomy Code:  xanmur2
Type Locality:  
Author:  Green & Arnold
Publish Year:  1939
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS
(Alcidae; Ϯ Ancient Murrelet S. antiquus) Gr. συνθλιβω sunthlibō  to compress  < συν sun, συμ sum  together; θλιβω thlibō  to squeeze; ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; "b. Subgen. Synthliboramphus Nob.  Rostrum breve, altum dilatatum, a latere inspectum fere ovale.   Spec. 5. Synthliboramphus antiquus Nob. — Alca antiqua Lath.; Uria antiqua Pall.   Spec. 6. Synthliboramphus Temminckii Nob. — Uria Wumizusume Temm. planch. col. tab. 579." (Brandt 1837); "Synthliboramphus M. Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Pétersb., 2, 1837, col. 347. Type, by subsequent designation, Alca antiqua Gmelin. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 77.)" (Peters 1934, II, 356).
Var. Synthliborhamphus, Syntliborhamphus.
Synon. Endomychura, Micruria, Rhamphosynthlipsis.

scrippsae / scrippsi
● Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932) English/US philanthropist, newspaper owner, founder of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California 1903 (syn. Dendrocopos villosus hyloscopus).
● Robert Paine Scripps (1895-1938) US newspaper owner (Synthliboramphus).