Great Lizard-Cuckoo

SCI Name:  Coccyzus merlini
Protonym:  Saurothera merlini Hist.IslaCuba[Sagra] 3 p.115
Taxonomy:  Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Coccyzus
Taxonomy Code:  grelic1
Type Locality:  Cuba.
Author:  d'Orbigny
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

COCCYZUS
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Yellow-billed Cuckoo C. americanus) Gr. κοκκυζω kokkuzō  to cry cuckoo  < κοκκυ kokku  cuckoo! the bird’s cry; “Coccyzus, said to be a misprint for Coccygus (Boie, Isis, 1826) as if the genitive of κόκκυζ, κόκκυγος. But it is probably a false latinizing of κοκκύζων = crying “Cuckoo””(BOU 1915); "40. COULICOU, Coccyzus.  Cuculus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec alongé, épais à la base, long, entier, convexe en dessus, arqué, comprimé par les côtés.— Tarses plus longs que le doigt le plus long.— Ailes courtes, arrondies.   Esp. Coucou de la Caroline, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Coccyzus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 28. Type, by monotypy, "Coucou de la Caroline" Buffon = Cuculus americanus Linné." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 41).
Var. Coccycus, Coccygon, Coccygus, Coccyzius, Coccizus, Cocizus, Coccysus.   
Synon. Coccystes, Coccyzon, Cureus, Erythrophrys, Hyetomantis, Hyetornis, Nesococcyx, Ptiloleptis, Saurothera, Vetula.
• (Cuculidae; syn. Coua † Snail-eating Coua C. delalandei) Perhaps from L. coclea  snail; Gr. ζαω  zaō  to live (see Cochlothraustes); "XXVI.^e  Genre.  COUA ou COULICOU; Coccyzus, Vieill.   ...   1. COUA DELALANDE; Coccyzus Delalandi, Temm., pl. 440.   ...   2. COUA DE GEOFFROY; Coccyzus Geoffroyi, Temm., pl. 7.   ...   3. COUA TAITSOU; Coccyzus cæruleus, Vieill., Gal., pl. 41.   ...   4. COUA HUPPÉ; Coccyzus cristatus, Cuv., Enl. 589." (Lesson 1831); "Coccyzus "Vieill." Lesson, 1831, Traité d'Ornithologie, p. 138 (not of Vieillot, 1816).  Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis and Heine, 1862, Museum Heineanum, IV (1), p. 74), Coccyzus delalandi, i.e. Coccycus delalandei Temminck, 1827." (JAJ 2021).

merlini
● Martial Henri Merlin (1860-1953) French colonial administrator, Gov. of Senegal 1907-1908, Gov.-Gen. of French Equatorial Africa 1908-1917, Gov.-Gen. of Madagascar 1917-1918, Gov.-Gen. of French West Africa 1919-1923, Gov.-Gen. of French Indochina 1923-1925 (subsp. Arborophila chloropus).
● María de las Mercedes Jaruco Condesa de Merlin (1788-1852) Spanish writer, musician (Coccyzus).

SUBSPECIES

Great Lizard-Cuckoo (Bahama)
SCI Name: Coccyzus merlini bahamensis
bahamensis
The Bahamas or Bahama Is. (Spanish baja mar  shallow sea).
● "61. ANAS.  ...  bahamensis.  14. A. grisea, rostro plumbeo: macula laterali fulva, macula alarum viridi luteaque.  Anas bahamensis; rostro plumbeo, macula aurantii coloris. Catesb. car. I. p. 63. t. 93.  Habitat in Bahama." (Linnaeus 1758) (Anas).
● ex “Bahama Titmouse” of Catesby 1731 (Coereba).
● Erroneous TL Bahama Is. (= Trinidad) (Momotus).

Great Lizard-Cuckoo (Cuban)
SCI Name: Coccyzus merlini [merlini Group]
COCCYZUS
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Yellow-billed Cuckoo C. americanus) Gr. κοκκυζω kokkuzō  to cry cuckoo  < κοκκυ kokku  cuckoo! the bird’s cry; “Coccyzus, said to be a misprint for Coccygus (Boie, Isis, 1826) as if the genitive of κόκκυζ, κόκκυγος. But it is probably a false latinizing of κοκκύζων = crying “Cuckoo””(BOU 1915); "40. COULICOU, Coccyzus.  Cuculus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec alongé, épais à la base, long, entier, convexe en dessus, arqué, comprimé par les côtés.— Tarses plus longs que le doigt le plus long.— Ailes courtes, arrondies.   Esp. Coucou de la Caroline, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Coccyzus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 28. Type, by monotypy, "Coucou de la Caroline" Buffon = Cuculus americanus Linné." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 41).
Var. Coccycus, Coccygon, Coccygus, Coccyzius, Coccizus, Cocizus, Coccysus.   
Synon. Coccystes, Coccyzon, Cureus, Erythrophrys, Hyetomantis, Hyetornis, Nesococcyx, Ptiloleptis, Saurothera, Vetula.
• (Cuculidae; syn. Coua † Snail-eating Coua C. delalandei) Perhaps from L. coclea  snail; Gr. ζαω  zaō  to live (see Cochlothraustes); "XXVI.^e  Genre.  COUA ou COULICOU; Coccyzus, Vieill.   ...   1. COUA DELALANDE; Coccyzus Delalandi, Temm., pl. 440.   ...   2. COUA DE GEOFFROY; Coccyzus Geoffroyi, Temm., pl. 7.   ...   3. COUA TAITSOU; Coccyzus cæruleus, Vieill., Gal., pl. 41.   ...   4. COUA HUPPÉ; Coccyzus cristatus, Cuv., Enl. 589." (Lesson 1831); "Coccyzus "Vieill." Lesson, 1831, Traité d'Ornithologie, p. 138 (not of Vieillot, 1816).  Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis and Heine, 1862, Museum Heineanum, IV (1), p. 74), Coccyzus delalandi, i.e. Coccycus delalandei Temminck, 1827." (JAJ 2021).