The Key to Scientific Names
- numida
Genus Numida Linnaeus, 1766, guineafowl.
- NUMIDA
(Numididae; † Helmeted Guineafowl N. meleagris) L. Numida African, Numidian (ancient Numidia, between Mauretania Caesariensis and Africa-Carthago, encompassed the north-eastern parts of modern Algeria); “NUMIDA. NUMIDA vertice corneo. Syst. Nat. p. 28. Meleagris. Dodart. mem. 135. Peintades. Aldr. aves. 2. p. 337. Will. ornith. 162. t. 26. Gallina guinea. Raj. aves. 52. 182. Gallus guineensis. Sloan. jam. 2. p. 302. Olear. mus. t. 15. f. 3. Alb. ornith. 2. t. 35. Worm. mus. 297. Gallina guineensis. Frequens in Ornithone.” (Linnaeus 1764); "102. NUMIDA. Caput collo compresso colorato cornutum. Palearia carunculacea, ad latera maxillæ inferioris. Rostrum cera instructum nares recipiente." (Linnaeus, 1766, Systema Naturae, ed. 12, I, p. 273); "Numida Linnaeus, 1764, Museum S:ae R:ae M:tis Adolphi Friderici Regis Svecorum, Gothorum, Vandalorumque &c., II, p. 27. Type, by monotypy, Phasianus meleagris Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2023). Linnaeus's Numida comprised a single species.
Var. Numidia.
Synon. Arquata, Gallina, Meleagris, Pintado, Querelea.
