The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Lupha

(Rallidae; syn. Fulica Red-knobbed Coot F. cristata) Misreading of a name λωφα lōpha for a coot, mentioned by Aldrovandus, 1603, Ornithologiae, III, p. 92  < ?Gr. λοφος lophos  crest; "Genera et Species typicae.   ...   4. *Lupha (ALDROV.) cristata (Ful. —  L.) R.  Ic. Av. t. 187. ic. 1090—91." (Reichenbach 1853); "Lupha Reichenbach, 1853, Avium Systema Naturale, p. XXI.  Type, by original designation, Fulica cristata L., i.e. Gmelin, 1789." (JAJ 2020).


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