Magnificent Frigatebird / Fregata magnificens
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Magnificent Frigatebird
SCI Name:
Protonym: Fregata minor magnificens AustralAv.Rec. 2 p.120
Taxonomy: Suliformes / Fregatidae / Fregata
Taxonomy Code: magfri
Type Locality: Barrington, Indefatigable, and Albemarle Islands, Galapagos Archipelago. Type from Barrington Island.
Author: Mathews
Publish Year: 1914
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
FREGATA
(Fregatidae; Ϯ Ascension Frigatebird F. aquila) French mariners’ name Frégate for the swift, rapacious frigatebirds < frégate frigate, warship (originally based on Italian fregata, etymology unknown); "95. FRÉGATTE. Fregata. { Le bec long et très-crochu vers son extrémité." (de Lacépède 1799); "Fregata Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 15. Type, by subsequent designation, Pelecanus aquila Linné. (Daudin, Hist. Nat. Buffon, ed. Didot, Quadr., 14, 1802, p. 317.)" (Peters, 1931, I, p. 95).
Var. Fregatta, Gregata.
Synon. Aquilus, Atagen, Parvifregata, Pelecanus, Tachypetes.
fregata
● German Fregatte frigate (and other European equivalents (see Fregata)) (syn. Fregetta grallaria, syn. Fregetta tropica).
● ex “Hirundo americana” of de Rochefort 1658, and “Fregata marina apus, subtus alba, superne nigra” of Barrère 1745 (syn. Pelagodroma marina).
magnificens
L. magnificens, magnificentis splendidly < magnificus grand < magnus great; facere to make.
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)
