The Key to Scientific Names
- Gervaisia
Prof. François Louis Paul Gervais (1816-1879) French zoologist, comparative anatomist.
● (Muscicapidae; syn. Copsychus Ϯ Madagascar Magpie Robin C. albospecularis) "Nous profitons toutefois de l'occasion, pour signaler comme genres nouveaux: ... 4. Gervaisia, Bp., pour le petit Saxicolien de Madagascar, rangé provisoirement parmi les Thamnobia: Turdus albospecularis, Eyd. et Gervais, Mag. Zool., 1836, Ois., t. 64 et 65." (Bonaparte 1854); "Gervaisia Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 38. Type, by monotypy, Turdus albospecularis Eydoux and Gervais." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 65).
Var. Cervaisia.
● ‡ (Phoenicopteridae; syn. Phoenicopterus Ϯ Gergovie Flamingo P. croizeti) "GERVAISIA gen. nov. ETYMOLOGY. The genus is named after Paul Gervais who first described the species. It is feminine in gender. TYPE SPECIES. Phoenicopterus croiseti Gervais 1852: 233-234; pl. 2, figs. 4-5." (Harrison & Walker 1976).
