Spectacled Guillemot
Cepphus carboPallas, PS, 1811
English (US) Spectacled Guillemot
The Spectacled Guillemot (Cepphus carbo) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Alcidae (Auks, Puffins, and Murres) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds North Pacific coast from Sea of Okhotsk, southern Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands (eastern Russia), Hokkaido (northern Japan), and perhaps northeastern Korean Peninsula; winters to central Japan and southern Korean PeninsulaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cepphus carbo
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Spectacled Guillemot
- Described by
- Pallas, PS, 1811
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cepphus Carbo
- Described by
- Pallas, PS, 1811
- Type locality
- Aleutians, Unalaska and Kurile Islands; restricted type locality, Kurile Islands, the other two localities being erroneous.
- Original description
- Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico (etc.) 2 p.350
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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