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Taxon: Genus Larus Linnaeus, 1758 (bird)
Classification by:

[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval. see Clade Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Laurin 2020]
     Order Charadriformes see Order Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867
       Family Laridae Vigors, 1825 - gulls, terns and skimmers
         Genus Larus Linnaeus, 1758
           01 Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 - herring gull
           02 Larus audouinii Payraudeau, 1826 - Audouin's gull
           03 Larus cachinnans Pallas, 1811 - yellow-legged gull
           04 Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758 - mew gull
           05 Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758 - lesser black-backed gull
           06 Larus genei Breme, 1839 - slender-billed gull
           07 Larus glaucoides Meyer, 1822 - Iceland gull
           08 Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767 - glaucous gull
           09 Larus marinus Linnaeus, 1758 - great black-backed gull
           10 Larus melanocephalus Temminck, 1820 - Mediterranean gull
           11 Larus minutus Pallas, 1776 - little gull
           12 Larus ridibundus Linnaeus, 1766 - common black-headed gull
           13 Larus sabini Sabine, 1819 - Sabine's gull see Xema sabini (Sabine, 1819)
           14 Larus tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 - black-legged kittiwake see Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758)

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