Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Arabic | سبد مصري |
Azerbaijani | Misir keçisağanı |
Bulgarian | Блед козодой |
Catalan | enganyapastors d'Egipte |
Chinese (SIM) | 埃及夜鹰 |
Croatian | pustinjski leganj |
Czech | lelek světlý |
Danish | Ørkennatravn |
Dutch | Egyptische Nachtzwaluw |
English | Egyptian Nightjar |
English (United States) | Egyptian Nightjar |
French | Engoulevent du désert |
French (France) | Engoulevent du désert |
German | Pharaonennachtschwalbe |
Greek | Αιγυπτιακό Γιδοβύζι |
Hebrew | תחמס מצרי |
Hungarian | Sivatagi lappantyú |
Icelandic | Niðfari |
Italian | Succiacapre isabellino |
Japanese | エジプトヨタカ |
Lithuanian | Egiptinis lėlys |
Norwegian | ørkennattravn |
Persian | شبگرد مصری |
Polish | lelek egipski |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Noitibó-do-deserto |
Romanian | Caprimulg egiptean |
Russian | Буланый козодой |
Serbian | Egipatski leganj |
Slovak | lelek žltkavý |
Slovenian | Egiptovska podhujka |
Spanish | Chotacabras Egipcio |
Spanish (Spain) | Chotacabras egipcio |
Swedish | ökennattskärra |
Turkish | Çöl Çobanaldatanı |
Ukrainian | Дрімлюга буланий |
Caprimulgus aegyptius Lichtenstein, 1823
PROTONYM:
Caprimulgus aegyptius
Lichtenstein, 1823. Verzeichniss der Doubletten des zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischen, p.59.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Upper Egypt.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- CAPRIMULGUS
- caprimulgus
- aegyptius
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius Scientific name definitions
Nigel Cleere
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated June 21, 2013
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated June 21, 2013
Revision History
Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius
Authors
Nigel Cleere
Recommended Citation
Cleere, N. (2020). Egyptian Nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.egynig1.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- June 21, 2013
- Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius
Authors
Nigel Cleere
Recommended Citation
Cleere, N. (2013). Egyptian Nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.