| Mongolian gull | |
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| Vega or Mongolian gull on the Lake Baikal. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Laridae |
| Genus: | Larus |
| Species: | L. mongolicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Larus mongolicus Sushkin, 1925
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| Synonyms | |
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Larus argentatus mongolicus | |
The Mongolian gull (Larus mongolicus) is a large gull of the herring gull/lesser black-backed gull complex which breeds in Northeast Asia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Vega gull (Larus vegae).