Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Leucophaeus pipixcan
Gaviota de Franklin, Franklin's Gull
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Laridae
Genus
Leucophaeus
Species
pipixcan
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831 (GBIF Secretariat, 2021)
Origin: Migrant
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Freile, J.F. Santander, T., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Carrasco, L., Cisneros-Heredia, D., Guevara, E., Sánchez-Nivicela, M., Tinoco, B. (2019) Lista Roja de las aves del Ecuador Quito, Ecuador. 97 pp.
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- Harris, M.P. (1973) The Galápagos avifauna. Condor 75(3): 265-278.
- Snodgrass, R.E. Heller, E. (1904) Birds of the Gálapagos Archipelago. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898 - 1899, XVI, birds. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 5: 231-372.
- Swarth, H.S. (1931) The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 18: 1-299.
- Wiedenfeld, D.A. (2006) Aves, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 2006 2(2): 1-27.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Leucophaeus pipixcan", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16790. Accessed 31 October 2026.