Ascension Crake / Mundia elpenor
WBN 
Ascension Crake
SCI Name:
Protonym: Atlantisia elpenor Smiths.Contrib.Zoology 152 p.ii,7
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Mundia
Taxonomy Code: asccra1
Type Locality:
Author: Olson
Publish Year: 1973
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
MUNDIA
(Rallidae; Ϯ Ascension Crake M. elpenor) Peter Mundy (d. 1667) English mariner, factor for the East India Co., world traveller; "We therefore propose a new generic name for the Ascension Rail. MUNDIA NEW GENUS ETYMOLOGY: Named after Peter Mundy, the only man to record it alive, on 7 June 1656. ... TYPE: Atlantisia elpenor Olson (1973)" (Bourne et al. 2003).
elpenor
“After Elpenor, a member of Odysseus’ crew who, like the rail, was stranded on an island and fell to his death” (Olson in Ripley 1977) (‡Mundia).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
