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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