Spectacled Eider

SCI Name:  Somateria fischeri
Protonym:  Fuligula (Lampronetta) Fischeri Fulig.(Lamp.)Fisch.Nov.Av.Ross.Sp. p.18 pl.1
Taxonomy:  Anseriformes / Anatidae / Somateria
Taxonomy Code:  speeid
Type Locality:  St. Michael, Alaska.
Author:  von Brandt
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

SOMATERIA
(Anatidae; Ϯ King Eider S. spectabilis) Gr. σωμα sōma, σωματος sōmatos  body; εριον erion  wool. The down used to line the nests of the Common Eider was formerly collected commercially; "Genus SOMATERIA, Leach, (Eider).   Species 1. SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS, (King Eider).  A pair only of this species was shot, in about lat. 72º.  Several were seen as high as 74º, mixing with Cuthbert's Eider. It is generally named King Duck. The trachea of this bird resembles that of the Anus [sic] Moschata. See Plate 14, fig. 1 and 2.  Latham.    Species 2. SOMATERIA, (Cuthbert's Eider), commonly named the Eider Duck.  Many of these were shot in the months of June and July, between lat. 71º and 74º." (Leach 1819); "Somateria Leach, in Ross, Voy. Disc. 2, 1819, p. 154, App., p. xlviii. Type, by monotypy, Anas spectabilis Linné.¹  ...  ¹ Of the two included species, one is listed only in the vernacular, the other has a valid binomial name and may be accepted as a monotypic type." (Peters 1931, I, 179). 
Var. Sommateria, Samoteria.   
Synon. Arctonetta, Eider, Erionetta, Ganza, Lampronetta, Platypus.

fischeri
● Gustav Adolf Fischer (1848-1886) German doctor, explorer, collector in tropical Africa 1876-1886 (Agapornis, syn. Calamonastes simplex, subsp. Centropus monachus, subsp. Cisticola chiniana, subsp. Cyanomitra veroxii, syn. Eurocephalus rueppelli, subsp. Geokichla guttata, Lamprotornis, Melaenornis, subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, Phyllastrephus, subsp. Ploceus melanocephalus, subsp. Pogoniulus bilineatus, syn. Scotopelia peli, syn. Sylvietta whytii minima, Tauraco, Vidua).
● George Fischer (fl. 1896) Dutch surgeon, collector in the East Indies (Ramphiculus).
● Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771-1853) German palaeontologist, zoologist in Russia 1804-1853 (Somateria, syn. Syrrhaptes paradoxus).