Lizard Buzzard
Lizard Buzzard
Here the details of the Lizard Buzzard named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Falco monogrammicus Pl.Col. livr.53 pl.314
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Kaupifalco
Taxonomy Code: lizbuz1
Type Locality: Senegal.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1824
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
KAUPIFALCO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Lizard Buzzard K. monogrammicus) Portmanteau of surname Kaup (after Dr Johann Jacob Kaup (1803-1873) German zoologist, systematist) and genus Falco Linnaeus, 1758, falcon; "e. Buteoneæ. ... 30. KAUPIFALCO, Bp. — 87. monogrammicus, Temm." (Bonaparte 1854); "Kaupifalco Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zoöl. (2), 6, 1854, p. 533. Type, by monotypy, Falco monogrammicus Temminck." (Peters 1931, I, 243).
Synon. Asturinula.
monogrammicus
Gr. μονος monos single; γραμμικος grammikos lined < γραμμη grammē line < γραφω graphō to write (cf. μονογραμμος monogrammos drawn with single lines, outlined, sketched).
SUBSPECIES
Lizard Buzzard (monogrammicus)
SCI Name: Kaupifalco monogrammicus monogrammicus
monogrammicus
Gr. μονος monos single; γραμμικος grammikos lined < γραμμη grammē line < γραφω graphō to write (cf. μονογραμμος monogrammos drawn with single lines, outlined, sketched).
Lizard Buzzard (meridionalis)
SCI Name: Kaupifalco monogrammicus meridionalis
meridionale / meridionalis
L. meridionalis southern < meridies south.
● Cayenne; ex “Rufous-headed Falcon” of Latham 1787 (Heterospizias).
● South Island, New Zealand; ex “Southern brown Parrot” of Latham 1781 (Nestor).
● Erroneous TL. Bahamas (= Trinidad) (syn. Trogon violaceus).
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)