The Key to Scientific Names
- Cyanepops
(artefact) Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; εποψ epops, εποπος epopos hoopoe; "761. Promerops coeruleus WAGL. Cyanepops coeruleus WAG. [Tab.] DXCIX. 4047." (Reichenbach 1853); "Type, "Promerops coeruleus WAGLER"3 ... 3= Promerops caeruleus Shaw? If so, a fictitious bird." (Richmond 1917).
- epops
L. epops, epopis hoopoe < Gr. εποψ epops, εποπος epopos hoopoe; "58. UPUPA. ... Epops. 1. U. cristata variegata. Upupa. Fn. svec. 85. Bell. av. 72: a. Gesn. av. 776. Aldr. ornith. l. 17. c. 11. Jonst. av. . . t. 42. Will. ornith. 100. t. 24. Raj. av. 48. Alb. av. 2. p. 39. t. 42. 43. Frisch. av. t. 43. Charl. onom. 63. t. 63. Olin. av. 36. Habitat in Europæ sylvis. Terrefacta cristam erigit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Upupa).
- Epops
(Upupidae; syn. Upupa †Eurasian Hoopoe U. epops) Specific name Upupa epops Linnaeus, 1758; "Epops upupa, Hoopoo." (F. Morris 1837); "Epops F. O. Morris, 1837, The Naturalist (ed. N. Wood), II (9), p. 124. New name for Upupa Linnaeus, 1758, to avoid the horrendous tautonym Upupa upupa." (JAJ 2021) (see Seiren).
- Epopsides
(Upupidae; syn. Upupa †Eurasian Hoopoe U. epops) Gr. εποψ epops, εποπος epopos hoopoe; -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "17e fam. Épopsides, epopsides, Vieill. G[enre]. huppe, type." (Lesson 1828); "Epopsides "Vieill." Lesson, 1828, Manuel d'Ornithologie, I, p. 63. Type, by monotypy, "huppe" = Upupa epops Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).