The Key to Scientific Names
- BATHOCELEUS
‡ (Picidae; Banana Woodpecker B. hyphalus) Gr. βαθος bathos deep water; κελεος keleos woodpecker (cf. genus Celeus Boie, 1831, woodpecker); "Bathoceleus, new genus TYPE OF GENUS. Bathoceleus hyphalus, new species. ... From Pleistocene at Banana Hole, New Providence Island, Bahamas ... Differs in generic characters from other West Indian woodpeckers. ... ETYMOLOGY. Greek, bathos, deep, and keleos, masculine, woodpecker" (Brodkorb 1959); "Bathoceleus Brodkorb, 1959, Bull. Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences, 4 (11), p. 362. Type, by original designation, Bathoceleus hyphalus Brodkorb, 1959." (JAJ 2022) (see hyphalus).
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Celeus (See: Cela)
Cela Gr. κελης kelēs, κελητος kelētos courser, race-horse < κελλω kellō to drive on.
● (Casuariidae; syn. Casuarius † Double-wattled Cassowary C. casuarius) “56. CELA.† Casuarius. LINN. gen. 61., ed. 6. gen. 63. Emeu. CLVS. exot. l. 5. c. 3. Casuel. PERR. Mem. d. Anim. 184. descr. opt. t. p. 184. f. opt. ... Obs. CLVS. & Parisienses palearia eodem loco collocant. His igitur obseruatoribus fidelibus credidi. WILL. & BONTII figuræ palearia inmerito mox sub rostro ponunt. BONTII quoque figura ob digitum posticum additum falsa.” (Moehring, 1852, Avium Genera, p. 57 (pre-Linnaean)); "b. Ohne Hinterzehe, Wadfüße, Schn. mäßig. 2. Gattung. Cela, Eme, Kasuar, Kasuel ... 1. Art. Gem. Eme, Struthio Casuarius, Cela ... 2. Art. Neu-Holländischer Eme" (Oken 1816); "Cela Oken, 1816, Lehrbuch Naturgesch., III, Zool. (2), p. 646. Alternative name for Casuarius Brisson, 1760." (JAJ 2023).
● (Otididae; syn. Chlamydotis † Houbara Bustard C. undulata) "XIII. Tribu. —— OISEAUX SENSIERS. OUTARDES. ... 3. O. nasier. Otis. 4. O. oreillier. Cela." (Oken, 1821, Esquisse du système d'anatomie, de physiologie et d'histoire naturelle, p. 60 (nom. nud.). Type here fixed by subsequent designation, "O. oreillier" of Oken = Psophia undulata von Jacquin, 1784." (JAJ 5/5/2021).
● ‡ (Emeidae; syn. Euryapteryx † Broad-billed Moa E. curtus) "Genera et Species typicae ... 1. x Cela (MÖHRING) curta (Dinornis curtus Owen Zool. Transact. III. 327. pl. 47 et 48.) R." (Reichenbach 1853); "Cela Reichenbach, 1853, Avium Systema Naturale, p. XXX (not of Moehring, 1758, nor of Oken, 1816, nor of Illiger, 1826 (nom. dub)). Type, by original designation, Dinornis curtus Owen, 1846." (JAJ 2020) (see Emeus).
Var. Celeus.- CELEUS
(Picidae; Ϯ Blond-crested Woodpecker C. flavescens) Gr. κελεος keleos green woodpecker (cf. Gr. myth. Celeus, king of Eleusis, proverbial for his rustic dress and love of agricultural pursuits); "Celeus für die americanischen P. flavescens, P. exalbidus, P. ochraceus Spix, P. cinnamomeus Lath., P. brunneus Licht., P. tinunculus Wagl., badioides Less. centu. p. 14, denen vielleicht asiatische beyzugesellen. Ein Mitkennzeichen für die Gattung gibt die Holle der meisten Arten, die aus mit ordentlichen Schäften und Fahnen versehenen Federn gebildet ist, ab. Viele andere Arten müssen einstweilig unter dem Namen Picus vereinigt bleiben" (Boie 1831); "Celeus Boie, Isis von Oken, 1831, col. 542. Type, by subsequent designation, C. flavescens (Gm.) = Picus flavescens Gmelin. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 55.)" (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 122).
Synon. Celeopicos, Cerchneipicus, Cerchneopipo, Crocomorphus, Malacolophus, Xanthopicus.
● see Cela- Nesoceleus
(Picidae; syn. Colaptes † Fernandina's Flicker C. fernandinae) Gr. νησος nēsos island (= Cuba); genus Celeus Boie, 1831, woodpecker; "NESOCELEUS, gen. nov. ...Genus propter nares omnino denudatas Celeinis adjungendum, quamvis habitu generali Colapti magis simile. Typus, N. FERNANDINÆ, i.e. Colaptes fernandinæ, Vig. et auctt. ex Cuba" (P. Sclater & Salvin 1873; "Nesoceleus Sclater and Salvin, Nomen. Avium Neotropicalum, 1873, pp. 101, 155 (Type [by original designation] Colaptes fernandinae Vigors)." (Cory, 1919, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. II (2), p. 416).