The Key to Scientific Names
- ANHIMA
(Anhimidae; Ϯ Horned Screamer A. cornuta) Tupí names Anhuma or Inhuma black bird, for the screamer or some other large bird; despite their strange, gamebird-like appearance the screamers are primitive Anseriformes, related to the Magpie Goose Anseranas and wildfowl Anatidae; "Rostro conico-incurvo. . .Alis corniculis binis in parte anteriore armatis: corniculo cylindraceo antrorsum arcuato in fronte. . . .Anhima. Genus 86. ... Le Genre du Kamichy. (1). ... (1) Kamichy, nom que les habitans de la Guiane donnent à l'espece de ce genre. Genus Anhimæ. (1). ... (1) Anhima, nomen hujus generis speciei a Brasiliensibus inditum. ... **1. LE KAMICHY. ... ANHIMA." (Brisson 1760): based on "Anhima" of Marcgrave 1648, Jonston 1650, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Bambiaya" of de Laet 1633, "Kamichy" and "Aquila aquatica" of Barrère 1741, "Aquila Americana" of Barrère 1745, "Cahuitahu" of La Condamine 1745, and "Palamedæa" of Möhring 1752; "Anhima Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, I, p. 48: V, p. 518. Type, by Linnaean tautonymy, "Anhima" Brisson = Palamedea cornuta Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2023).
Synon. Palamedea.
