Dwarf Cassowary

SCI Name:  Casuarius bennetti
Protonym:  Casuarius Bennetti Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1857) (1857), Pt25 no.343 p.269 pl.129
Taxonomy:  Casuariiformes / Casuariidae / Casuarius
Taxonomy Code:  dwacas1
Type Locality:  New Britain.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1857
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CASUARIUS
(Casuariidae; Ϯ Double-wattled Cassowary C. casuarius) Malay name Kasuāri for these large cursorial birds (cf. "kassuwaris, a native name" (Richmond 1902)); "CASOAR  ... CASUARIUS ...  Il est presqu'aussi gros que l'Autruche; mais il n'est pas si élevé" (Brisson 1760); based on "Avis Eme" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, "Emeu" of Clusius 1605, Charleton 1668, Willughby 1676, Ray 1713, Barrère 1745, and Linnaeus 1748, "Casearius" of Wormius 1655, "Casoaris" of Bontius 1658, "Cassowary" of Albin 1731-1738, "Casuarius" of Frisch 1733, and Klein 1750, "Cela" of Moehring 1752, and Struthio casuarius Linnaeus, 1758; "Casuarius, av malayiska namnet "Casoaris" hos BONTIUS, åt hvilket LINNÉ år 1735 givit en latinsk form, är här i det följande (Ord. 7) utbytt mot Hippalectryo Glog." (Sundevall 1873); "Casuarius Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 46; 5, p. 10. Type, by tautonymy, Casuarius Brisson = Struthio casuarius Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 5).
Var. Casoaris, Casoarius, Casearius. 
Synon. Cassowara, Cela, Hippalectryo, Oxyporus, Thrasys.

casuarius
Malay name Kasuari for the Double-wattled Cassowary (Suwari of Newton & Gadow 1896; Kasuārī of SOED 1944; Kesuari of New Oxford Dict. English 2001); "86. STRUTHIO.  ...  Casuarius.  2. S. pedibus tridactylis, vertice palearibusque nudis.  Casuarius. Olear. mus. 23. t. 13. f. 2. Alb. av. 2. p. 56. t. 60.  Emeu. Dodart. mem. 377. Raj. av. 36. Clus. exot. 98. Bont. jav. 71. Will. ornith. 105. t. 25. Worm. mus. . . Jonst. av. 172. t. 56. Aldr. orn. l. 20. t. 541.  Habitat in Asia, Sumatra, Molucca, Banda.  Callus elevatus quasi diadema verticis. Palearia 2 sub collo; Collum a tergo nudum. Ungue intermedio majore ferit; ova punctis excavatis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Casuarius).

bennetti / bennettii
● Dr George Bennett (1804-1893) British surgeon, zoologist, botanist, conservationist, settled in Australia 1836 (Aegotheles, Casuarius, syn. Melanorectes nigrescens).
● Edward Turner Bennett (1797-1836) British zoologist, Vice-Secretary/Secretary of Zoological Society of London 1826-1836 (syn. Calocitta colliei, Campethera, syn. Orthotomus sutorius guzuratus).
● Kenric Harold Bennett (1835-1891) Australian naturalist, collector (Corvus).
● Lt. Dr Logan Johnson Bennett (1907-1957) US Navy, conservationist, collector in Melanesia 1944, Chief of US Fish & Wildlife Service 1948-1953 (subsp. Todiramphus chloris).