Genus
Synthliboramphus (Synthliboramphus murrelets)
Synthliboramphus antiquus. Photo: (c) guyincognito, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Synthliboramphus is a small genus of seabirds in the auk family from the North Pacific. The genus name Synthliboramphus is from Ancient Greek sunthlibo, “to compress”, and rhamphos, “bill”. “Murrelet” is a diminutive of “murre”, a word of uncertain origins, but which may imitate the call of the common guillemot.
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