The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- numidica / numidicus
L. Numidicus Numidian < Numidia Numidia. In the ancient world the kingdom of Numidia comprised those parts of north-west Africa now including northern Algeria and north-western Tunisia.
● ex “Demoiselle de Numidie” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 241 (syn. Anthropoides virgo).- Numidica
(Gruidae; syn. Anthropoides † Demoiselle Crane A. virgo) L. Numidicus Numidian < Numidia Numidia; "Grus, Eurypyga, Courlan (Ar. scol:), Gr., Numidica, Psophia" (Oken 1817); based on Grus numidica Bechstein, 1792, and “Numidiques” of Cuvier 1816; "Numidica Oken, 1817, Isis von Oken, p. 1184. Type, by tautonymy, Grus numidica Bechstein, 1792 = Ardea virgo Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).
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