The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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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"...  3Promerops 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 sylvisTerrefacta 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 -oidÄ“s  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).


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