The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Tetrapteryx
(Gruidae; syn. Anthropoides † Blue Crane A. paradiseus) Gr. τετρα- tetra- four- < τεσσαρες tessares four; πτερυξ pterux, πτερυγος pterugos wing, feathers (cf. τετραπτερος tetrapteros four-winged); alluding to the elongated tertials which extend almost to the ground, giving the impression of a very long tail (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.); "Tetrapteryx Thunberg, K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. Stockholm, 1818, p. 242. Type by monotypy, Tetrapteryx capensis Thunb. = Ardea paradisea Licht." (W. Sclater, 1924, Syst. Av. Aethiop., I, p. 111).
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