The Key to Scientific Names
- merganser
Late Med. L. Merganser Goosander < L. mergus type of waterbird < mergere to plunge in; anser, anseris goose.
● (syn. Alopochen aegyptiaca).
● "62. MERGUS. ... Merganser. 2. M. crista dependente, capite nigro-cærulescente, collari albo. It. gottl. 166. œl. 49. Fn. svec. 113. Merganser. Gesn. av. 134. Aldr. orn. l. 19. c. 63. Will. orn. 253. t. 64. Raj. av. 134. Mars. danub. 78. t. 37. β. Mergus major, pectore rubro. Alb. av. I. p. 83. t. 87. & 2. p. 90. t. 101. Edw. av. 95. t. 95. Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Mergus).
● ex “Red-breasted Goosander” of Edwards 1747 (syn. Mergus serrator).- Merganser
(Anatidae; syn. Mergus † Red-breasted Merganser M. serrator) Late Med. L. Merganser < L. mergus type of waterbird < mergere to plunge in; anser, anseris goose (cf. specific name Mergus merganser Linnaeus, 1758); "Rostro denticulato, Subcylindraceo; mandibulæ superioris apice adunco. . . .Merganser. Genus 105. ... Genre de l'Harle. Genus Merganseris. ... 1. L'HARLE ... MERGANSER" (Brisson 1760): based on "Merganser" of Gessner 1555 and other old authors; "Merganser Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, I, p. 58: VI, p. 230. Type, by Linnaean tautonymy, "Merganser" Brisson = Mergus serrator Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2023).
Var. Mergnaser.
