Genus
Synthliboramphus
5 species
The list of species of Synthliboramphus genus
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The list of species of Synthliboramphus genus
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The ancient murrelet (Synthliboramphus antiquus ) is a bird in the auk family. The genus name Synthliboramphus is from Ancient Greek sunthlibo, "to compress", and rhamphos, "bill", and antiquus is Latin for ancient. The English term "murrelet" is a...
Scripps's murrelet (Synthliboramphus scrippsi ) is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean. This auk breeds on islands off California and Mexico. It is threatened by predators introduced to its breeding colonies...
The Guadalupe murrelet (Synthliboramphus hypoleucus ) is a small seabird found in the California Current system in the Pacific Ocean. This auk breeds on islands off California and Mexico. It is threatened by predators introduced to its breeding...
The Japanese murrelet or crested murrelet (Synthliboramphus wumizusume ) is a small seabird in the auk family that occurs along the remote rocky coasts and in the offshore waters of Japan, and may also be found after the breeding season as far as...
Craveri's murrelet (Synthliboramphus craveri ) is a small seabird which breeds on offshore islands in both the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California off the Baja peninsula of Mexico. It also wanders fairly regularly as far as central California...