Buff-crested Bustard / Eupodotis gindiana
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Buff-crested Bustard
SCI Name:
Protonym: Eupodotis Gindiana Bull.Soc.Philom.(7), 5 p.164
Taxonomy: Otidiformes / Otididae / Eupodotis
Taxonomy Code: bucbus1
Type Locality: East Africa between Somaliland and Zanzibar.
Author: Oustalet
Publish Year: 1881
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EUPODOTIS
(Otididae; Ϯ Senegal Bustard E. senegalensis) Gr. ευπους eupous, ευποδος eupodos swift of foot < ευ eu perfection; πους pous, ποδος podos foot; ωτις ōtis, ωτιδος ōtidos bustard; "14e genre OUTARDE, Otis, L. ... 3e sous-genre Eupodotis. Quatorze espèces: O. rhaad, O. arabs, O. afra, O. afraoides, O. Denhami, O. nuba, O. caffra, O. cœrulescens, O. Vigorsii, O. melanogaster, O. ferox, O. scolopacea, O. Senegalensis, O. nigriceps." (Lesson 1839); "Eupodotis Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 47. Type, by subsequent designation, Otis rhaad Rüppell not of Gmelin = Otis senegalensis Vieillot. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 64.)" (Peters, 1934, II, p. 222).
Synon. Trachelotis.
gindiana
Abdou or Abden Gindi (fl. 1880) Egyptian explorer, collector in Zanzibar, Abyssinia and Somaliland (Lophotis).
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)
