| Sooty gull | |
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| Sooty gulls in Oman | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Laridae |
| Genus: | Ichthyaetus |
| Species: | I. hemprichii
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| Binomial name | |
| Ichthyaetus hemprichii (Bruch, 1855)
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The sooty gull (Ichthyaetus hemprichii) is a species of gull in the family Laridae, also known as the Aden gull or Hemprich's gull. It is found in Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Maldives, Mozambique, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. As is the case with many gulls, it has traditionally been placed in the genus Larus. The sooty gull is named in honour of the German naturalist Wilhelm Hemprich who died in 1825 while on a scientific expedition to Egypt and the Middle East with his friend Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.[3]
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Larus hemprichii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22694303A132539775. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22694303A132539775.en. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ^ Denis Lepage. "Ichthyaetus hemprichii". Avibase. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
- ^ Bauer, A. M. (2000) 'The Symbolae Physicae and the herpetology of Hemprich and Ehrenberg’s expedition to Egypt and the Middle East" International Society for the History and Bibliography of Herpetology Newsletter and Bulletin 2(1): pp. 8–16