The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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typhon
Gr. myth. Typhon or Typhoeus, a monstrous giant who terrified the gods but was eventually destroyed and crushed under Mt. Etna by Zeus (syn. Ardea sumatrana).

Typhon

(Ardeidae; syn. Ardea † Great-billed Heron A. sumatrana) Specific name Ardea typhon Temminck, 1824 (= syn. Ardea sumatrana); "Genera et Species typicae.   ...   d. Typhon Rchb.  Temminckii R. (Ardea Typhon T.)  Ic. Av. t. 159. ic. 466." (Reichenbach 1853); "Typhon Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vögel, p. xvi, 1852 (1853).  Type (by original designation): Ardea typhon Temminck = A. sumatrana Raffles." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 194).


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