''Chroicocephalus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of medium to relatively small gulls which were included in the

'' Larus'' until recently. Some authorities also include the Saunders's gull in ''Chroicocephalus''. The genus name '' Chroicocephalus'' is from

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

''khroizo'', "to colour", and ''kephale'', "head". Representatives of this genus are found in regions/subregions all over the world, each species usually being confined to a region.

Species

Fossils

Huahine gull The Huahine gull (''Chroicocephalus utunui''), also known as the Society Islands gull, is an extinct bird, a species of gull of which subfossil bones were found at the Fa'ahia archeological site on Huahine, in the Society Islands of French Polyne ...

†''Chroicocephalus utunui'' -French Polynesia.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q135851 Bird genera Taxa named by Thomas Campbell Eyton