Ichthyaetus

Ichthyaetus
	Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Laridae
Subfamily:	Larinae
Genus:	Ichthyaetus; Kaup, 1829
Type species
	Larus ichthyaetus; (Pallas, 1773)
Species
	See text

Ichthyaetus is a genus of gulls. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ikhthus, "fish", and aetos, "eagle".^[1] They were previously included in the genus Larus.^[2]

Species

Genus **Ichthyaetus** – Kaup, 1829 – six species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Sooty gull	Ichthyaetus hemprichii (Bruch, 1855)	Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Maldives, Mozambique, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Great black-headed (or Pallas's) gull	Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus (Pallas, 1773)	Breeds in Central Asia and Ukraine, winters in Arabia and India.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Audouin's gull	Ichthyaetus audouinii (Payraudeau, 1826)	Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa and the Iberian peninsula	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
Mediterranean gull	Ichthyaetus melanocephalus (Temminck, 1820)	the Black Sea and the eastern Mediterranean this species has now expanded over most of Europe as far as Great Britain and Ireland	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Relict gull	Ichthyaetus relictus (Lönnberg, 1931)	Mongolia, two in Kazakhstan, one in Russia, and one in China (Lake Hongjiannao)	Size: Habitat: Diet:	VU
White-eyed gull	Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus (Temminck, 1825)	Throughout Red Sea	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Pons J.M., Hassanin, A., and Crochet P.A.(2005). Phylogenetic relationships within the Laridae (Charadriiformes: Aves) inferred from mitochondrial markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(3):686–699

[job-1] Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 224. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[2] Pons J.M., Hassanin, A., and Crochet P.A.(2005). Phylogenetic relationships within the Laridae (Charadriiformes: Aves) inferred from mitochondrial markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(3):686–699

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v t e Gulls (family: Laridae)
Genus	Species († indicates a species confirmed to be extinct)
Larus	Pacific gull Belcher's gull Olrog's gull Black-tailed gull Heermann's gull Common gull Short-billed gull Ring-billed gull California gull Great black-backed gull Kelp gull (or Cape gull) Glaucous-winged gull Western gull Yellow-footed gull Glaucous gull Iceland gull Thayer's gull European herring gull American herring gull Yellow-legged gull Caspian gull Vega gull (or East Siberian gull / Mongolian gull) Armenian gull Slaty-backed gull Lesser black-backed gull Heuglin's gull
Ichthyaetus	White-eyed gull Sooty gull Great black-headed gull (or Pallas's gull) Audouin's gull Mediterranean gull Relict gull
Leucophaeus	Dolphin gull Laughing gull Franklin's gull Lava gull Grey gull
Chroicocephalus	Silver gull Red-billed gull Huahine gull † Hartlaub's gull Brown-hooded gull Grey-headed gull (or grey-hooded gull) Andean gull Black-billed gull Brown-headed gull Black-headed gull Slender-billed gull Bonaparte's gull Saunders's gull
Hydrocoloeus	Little gull
Rhodostethia	Ross's gull
Rissa	Black-legged kittiwake Red-legged kittiwake
Pagophila	Ivory gull
Xema	Sabine's gull
Creagrus	Swallow-tailed gull
Gull eggs as food Hybridisation in gulls