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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
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Spectacled Guillemot
Described by
Pallas, PS, 1811

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Taxonomic 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.

See all 25 species of the family Alcidae