Australian Pelican
Australian Pelican
Here the details of the Australian Pelican named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pelecanus conspicillatus Pl.Col. livr.47 pl.276
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Pelecanidae / Pelecanus
Taxonomy Code: auspel1
Type Locality: Australia = New South Wales.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1824
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PELECANUS
(Pelecanidae; Ϯ Great White Pelican P. onocrotalus) Gr. πελεκαν pelekan, πελεκανος pelekanos pelican; "66. PELECANUS. Rostrum edentulum, rectum: apice adunco, unguiculato. Nares lineares, obliteratæ. Facies nudiuscula. Pedes digitis omnibus quatuor simul palmatis." (Linnaeus 1758); "Pelecanus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 132. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 80), Pelecanus onocrotalus Linnaeus." (Dorst & Mougin in Peters 1979, I, ed. 2, 188). Linnaeus's Pelecanus comprised five species (P. Onocrotalus, P. Aquilus, P. Carbo, P. Bassanus, P. Piscator).
Var. Pelicanus, Pilecanus, Pelecanis.
Synon. Alcatras, Catoptropelicanus, Cyrtopelicanus, Leptopelicanus, Metapelecanus, Neopelecanus, Onocrotalus, Sacrificator.
● (syn. Fregata Ϯ Ascension Frigatebird F. aquila) "197. PELICANUS. Tail forked. P. aquilus, or Frigatebird." (Fleming 1822).
● (syn. Platalea Ϯ Eurasian Spoonbill P. leucorodia) "60. LEPELAAR, PELIKAAN, in 't Latyn Pelecanus. By den Heer LINNÆUS geplaatst onder de Eenden met den naam van Platea. Syst. Nat. geslacht 48" (Moehring 1758).
pelecanus
L. pelecanus pelican < Gr. πελεκαν pelekan, πελεκανος pelekanos pelican.
conspicillata / conspicillatum / conspicillatus
Mod. L. conspicillatus spectacled, with conspicuous eye-markings < L. conspicillum place to look from < conspicere to behold.
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)