The Key to Scientific Names
- phoenicopterus
Gr. φοινικοπτερος phoinikopteros red-feathered < φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos crimson; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
● ex “Purple-shouldered Pigeon” of Latham 1787 (Treron).- PHOENICOPTERUS
(Phoenicopteridae; Ϯ American Flamingo P. ruber) L. phoenicopterus flamingo < Gr. φοινικοπτερος phoinikopteros flamingo < φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos crimson; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing; despite its erratic appearance and breeding habits, the Greater Flamingo P. roseus was well known to the ancients, and served up as a delicacy at the tables of the wealthy; "72. PHOENICOPTERUS. Rostrum denudatum, infracto-incurvatum. Pedes palmati, tetradactyli." (Linnaeus 1758); "Phoenicopterus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 139. Type, by monotypy, Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus." (Kahl in Peters, 1979, I, 2nd ed., p. 269). Linnaeus's Phoenicopterus comprised a single species.
Var. Phönicopterus, Phenicopterus, Phaenicopterus.
Synon. Gervaisia, Harrisonavis, Phoenicorodias.
● (Phoenicopteridae; syn. Phoeniconaias † Lesser Flamingo P. minor) “Phoenicopterus Briss.: minor Gm. u. a.” (Boie 1826); “Phoenicopterus “Briss.” Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 979 (not of Brisson, i.e. Linnaeus, 1758). Type, by monotypy, Phoenicopterus minor Gm., i.e. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798.” (JAJ 2023).