The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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spiciferus

L. spicifer  spike-bearing  < spica  spike, point; -fera  -carrying  < ferre  to carry (cf. spicifer  wearing ears of corn); ex “Spicifère” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Pavo muticus).


Spiciferus

(Phasianidae; syn. Pavo Green Peafowl P. muticus) Specific name Pavo spiciferus Shaw, 1804 (= syn. Pavo muticus); "Subf. 12. Pavoninæ.  ...  28. Spiciferus, Bp.  71. muticus, L.  (japonensis, Br.  javanicus, Horsf.  spiciferus, Vieill.  aldrovandi, Wils.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Spiciferus Bonaparte, 1856, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, XLII (19), p. 879.  Type, by tautonymy, Pavo spiciferus Vieill., i.e. Shaw, 1804 = Pavo muticus Linnaeus, 1766," (JAJ 2021).
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