The Key to Scientific Names

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bidens

L. bidens, bidentis  having two teeth, double-toothed  < bi-  two-, double-  < bis  twice; dens, dentis  tooth.


Bidens

(Accipitridaesyn. Harpagus Ϯ Double-toothed Kite H. bidentatus) L. bidens, bidentis  having two teeth, double-toothed  < bi-  two-, double-  < bis  twice; dens, dentis  tooth; "GENUS X.  BIDENS.  Tinnunculoides, exiguus; pedibus gracilioribus; rostro brevi, subcompresso, plus minusve bidentato; alis cruciatis, cauda brevioribus.   SPECIES 1. BIDENS RUFIVENTER.  TAB. VI.  ...  SPECIES 2. BIDENS ALBIVENTER.  TAB.VII.  ...  SPECIES 3. BIDENS CINERASCENS. (femoralis). TAB. VIII.  ...  SPECIES 4. BIDENS SPARVERIUS. Buff. pl. 465.  ...  SPECIES 5. BIDENS DOMINICENSIS. Buff. pl. 444.  ...  SPECIES 6. BIDENS AURANTIUS. Lath." (von Spix 1826); "Bidens Spix, Av. Spec. Nov. Bras., 1, p. 15, 1824—type, by subs. desig. (Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 1, p. 360, 1874), [Bidens rufiventer and Bidens albiventer =] Falco bidentatus Latham." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1949, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (4), p. 32).


obidensis
Obidos, Pará, Brazil.

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