Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.130

Protonym:
  Alca Grylle

Type locality:
  Ocean of northern Europe; restricted type locality, Sweden.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/148/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  3FD41C21A83B985B

Avibase ID:
  avibase-3FD41C21

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/3FD41C21

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 176985

Geographic range:

• Cepphus grylle: breeds coasts of high Arctic to north temperate North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean from Greenland, Iceland, northern British Isles east through northeastern Russia; north slope of Alaska, eastern Canada including Hudson Bay; winters to ice-free waters near breeding range
• Cepphus grylle grylle: Baltic Sea
• Cepphus grylle islandicus: Iceland
• Cepphus grylle mandtii: Arctic eastern North America and Arctic northern Palearctic
• Cepphus grylle arcticus: subarctic eastern North America and southern Greenland to British Isles and Scandinavia
• Cepphus grylle faeroeensis: Faroe Islands
• Cepphus columba: Arctic to temperate northwestern to east-central North Pacific coasts, from southern Chukotka to Kamchatka, Kuril and Commander islands (eastern Russia); Bering Sea and Aleutian islands, and Gulf of Alaska to southern California; some withdrawal from north in winter
• Cepphus columba columba: northeastern Siberia to Bering Sea and western Alaska
• Cepphus columba adiantus: central Aleutian Islands southward to Washington
• Cepphus columba eureka: Oregon and California
• Cepphus columba kaiurka: Komandorskiye Islands to west-central Aleutian Islands
• Cepphus columba snowi: Kuril Islands
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