Vulturine Guineafowl
Vulturine Guineafowl
Here the details of the Vulturine Guineafowl named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Numida vulturina Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 no.18 p.52
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Numididae / Acryllium
Taxonomy Code: vulgui1
Type Locality: West Africa, error = Tsavo, Kenya Colony, proposed by Friedmann, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 153, 1930, p. 136.
Author: Hardwicke
Publish Year: 1834
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ACRYLLIUM
(Numididae; Ϯ Vulturine Guineafowl A. vulturinum) Dim. < Gr. ακρις akris point, spike (cf. ακριδιον akridion spikelet). The Vulturine Guineafowl has a very pointed tail and numerous lanceolate feathers on the underparts; "16 Schwanzfedern, die mittleren lanzettförmig zugespitzt, die mittelsten verlängert ... Federn des Halses bandförmig, schwarz mit weissem lanzettförmigen Schaftstreif und besonders die des Nackens mit kobaltblauen Säumen" (Reichenow 1901). According to Agassiz 1842-1846, this is a proper name, but I can find no basis for such an etymology (a derivation from Acrillae, an ancient city of Sicily, would make no sense or be very obscure); "ACRYLLIUM, n. Numida, Hardw. A. vulturinum, (Hardw.) n. Gould's Icon. Av., pl." (G. Gray 1840); "Acryllium G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 61. Type, by original designation, Numida vulturina Hardwicke." (Peters 1934, II, 139).
Var. Acryllion.
vulturina / vulturinum / vulturinus
L. vulturinus like a vulture, vulturine (e.g. bald-headed) < vultur, vulturis vulture.
● ex “Caffre” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 6 (?syn. Aquila verreauxi).
● ex Vultur albicilla Linnaeus, 1766 (syn. Haliaeetus albicilla).
● ex “Philédon vulturin” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1841 (syn. Philemon inornatus).
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)