Titicaca Grebe
Titicaca Grebe
Here the details of the Titicaca Grebe named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Podiceps micropterus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.220
Taxonomy: Podicipediformes / Podicipedidae / Rollandia
Taxonomy Code: titgre1
Type Locality: Lake Titicaca.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
ROLLANDIA
(Podicipediae; Ϯ White-tufted Grebe R. rolland) Specific name Podiceps rolland Quoy & Gaimard, 1824; "Z. PODICIPEÆ. ... 16. Rollandia, Bp. 47. leucotis, Cuv. (rollandi, Quoy et Gaim.) 48. micra, Bp." (Bonaparte 1856); "Rollandia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, p. 775, 1856—type, by virtual monotypy, Rollandia leucotis Bonaparte = Podiceps Rolland Quoy and Gaimard." (Hellmayr & Conover 1948, XIII, 19).
Synon. Centropelma.
microptera
Gr. μικροπτερα mikroptera small-winged < μικρος mikros small; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
Microptera
(syn. Scolopax Ϯ American Woodcock S. minor) Gr. μικροπτερα mikroptera small-winged < μικρος mikros small; πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing; "Subgenus.—*MICROPTERA, (RUSTICOLA, Bonap.) THE head more rounded than quadrate. The wings short, and the 3 first primaries very narrow and graduated, the 4th and 5th being longest. Legs less robust, and the hind toe nail slightly projecting over the extremity of the toe. ... The structure of the wings is very peculiar and characteristic, nothing of the kind existing in the Woodcock of Europe. It is in consequence a bird of more retiring habits, less capable of continued flight, being often sedentary in the countries in which it breeds, and migrating short distances merely over land, as the severity of the winter season increases where it happens to reside. ... LESSER WOODCOCK. (Rusticola minor, NOBIS. Scolopax minor, GMEL. BONAP. Syn. No. 269. WILSON, vi. p. 40. pl. 48. fig. 2. PENN. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 463. No. 365. Phil. Museum, No. . .)" (Nuttall 1834); "Microptera (not of Gravenhorst, 1802) Nuttall, Man. Bds. U. S. and Canada, Water Birds, p. 192, 1832 [= 1834]—type, by orig. desig., Rusticola minor = Scolopax minor Gmelin." (Hellmayr & Conover, 1948, XIII, 164). Var. Microptes (Gr. πτην ptēn winged).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: 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)