The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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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, HarrisonavisPhoenicorodias.
● (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).


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