Thick-billed murre

Thick-billed murre
Adults in breeding plumage
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Uria
Species:
U. lomvia
Binomial name
Uria lomvia
Subspecies

Uria lomvia lomvia – (Linnaeus, 1758)
U. l. eleonorae – (Portenko, 1937)
Uria lomvia heckeri – (Portenko, 1944)
U. l. arra – (Pallas, 1811)

Synonyms

Alca lomvia Linnaeus, 1758 (protonym)

The thick-billed murre or Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) is a bird in the auk family (Alcidae). This bird is named after the Danish zoologist Morten Thrane Brünnich. The very deeply black North Pacific subspecies Uria lomvia arra is also called Pallas' murre after its describer.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Uria lomvia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22694847A132066134. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22694847A132066134.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.