The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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gallopavo

Late Med. L. gallopavo, gallopavonis  Gessner’s 1555, name for the Wild Turkey, because its overall appearance is that of a fowl but in its size and bright tail it resembles a peacock  < L. gallus  cockerel; pavo, pavonis  peacock; "88. MELEAGRIS.  ...  Gallopavo.  1. M. capite caruncula frontali, cristaque gulari, maris pectore barbato.  Meleagris. Fn. svec. 164.  Gallo-pavo sylvestris novæ angliæ. Raj. av. 51. Alb. av. 3. p. 33. t. 35.   β. Gallopavo. Gesn. av. 482. Aldr. orn. l. 13. c. 4. Bell. av. 60. α. Jonst. av. 58. t. 24. Will. orn. 113. t. 27. Raj. av. 51.   γ. Gallopavo cristatus. Alb. av. 2. p. 30. t. 33.  Habitat in America septentrionaliMas exæstuat inflato pectore, expansa cauda, sanguinea facie, relaxata frontis caruncula: iræ tenax; Sapida caro. Rectrices XVIII. Barba pectoris tertio anno excrescit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Meleagris).


Gallopavo

(Phasianidae; syn. Meleagris â€  Wild Turkey M. gallopavo) "Palea una longitudinali, sub gutture pendula. . . . Gallo-pavo.  Genus 2.   ...  LE DINDON.  Gallo-pavo caruncula in fronte donatus . . .GALLO-PAVO" (Brisson 1760); based on "Gallo-pavo" and "Meleagris" of many earlier authors; "[Key] Crura ad tibiam usque plumosa,  Pedes ambulatorii,  Cute coriacea rugosa tecti,  Alæ ad volatum aptæ,  Rostrum conicum apice incurvum,  Nares membrana cartilaginea convexa semitectæ,  Palea unica gutturis  -  GALLOPAVO" (Brünnich, 1772, Zoologiae Fundamenta, p. 86); "Gallopavo Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, I, pp. 26, 158.  Type, by Linnaean tautonymy, "Gallo-pavo" Brisson = Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2023).
Var. Gallopavus.


gallopavonis

Late Med. L. gallopavo, gallopavonis  turkey  < L. gallus  cockerel; pavo, pavonis  peacock; ex “Turkey Pheasant” of Edwards 1758-1764, and “Faisan Dindon” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Phasianus x Meleagris).


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