The Key to Scientific Names
- fuligula / fuligulae / fuligulus
L. fuligo, fuliginis soot; gula throat.
● "61. ANAS. ... Fuligula. 39. A. crista dependente, corpore nigro, ventre maculaque alarum albis. Fn. Svec. 99. Anas Fuligula. Gesn. av. 107. Will. orn. 280. t. 73. Alb. av. I. p. 91. t. 95. Anas cristata. Raj. av. 142. Habitat in Europæ maritimis. Mas. incubante femina, nos deserit." (Linnaeus 1758) (cf. “for fulicula, diminutive of fulix or fulica [Coot]” (BOU 1915)) (Aythya).
● ex “Hirondelle Fauve” of Levaillant 1806 (Ptyonoprogne).- Fuligula
L. fuligo, fuliginis soot; gula throat.
● (Anatidae; quasi-syn. Aythya † Common Pochard A. ferina) “FULIGULA, Ray. (fig. 334.) Bill depressed from the base; the tip abruptly and obtusely rounded, but not contracted. F. Ferina. Selby, pl. 63. f. 1. marina. Ib. pl. 66. (a)” (Swainson 1837); “Fuligula Swainson, 1837, Nat. Hist. Classification Birds, II, p. 368. Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 124), Anas ferina Linnaeus, 1758.” (JAJ 2023).
● (Anatidae; syn. Aythya † Tufted Duck A. fuligula) "FULIGULA. POCHARD. ... FULIGULA. Ray, Leach. NYROCA. Fleming. PENELOPE. Briss. GLAUCIUM. Briss. QUERQUEDULA. Briss. ... TUFTED POCHARD. (Fuligula cristata.) ... Anas Fuligula. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 207." (Stephens 1824); "Fuligula Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., 12, (2), p. 187, 1824—type, by tautonymy, Anas fuligula Linnaeus." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1948, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (2), p. 367) (see Fulgula).