Long-billed Partridge
Long-billed Partridge
Here the details of the Long-billed Partridge named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Perdix Longirostris Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. 3 p.323,721.
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Phasianidae / Rhizothera
Taxonomy Code: lobpar3
Type Locality: Sumatra.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1815
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
RHIZOTHERA
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Long-billed Partridge R. longirostris) Gr. ῥιζα rhiza root; -θηρας -thēras -hunter < θηραο thēraō to hunt < θηρ thēr, θηρος thēros beast, animal; "RHIZOTHERA, G. R. Gray (1841). Perdix, Temm. Tetrao, Raffl. Francolinus, Steph. R. longirostris, (Temm.) G. R. Gray. T. curvirostris, Raffl. Ill. Ind. Zool. II, pl. f. 2." (G. Gray 1841); "Rhizothera G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., ed. 2, 1841, p. 79. Type, by monotypy, Perdix longirostris Temminck." (Peters 1934, II, 90).
longirostris
L. longus long; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak. Var. Longirostra.
● ex “Long-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡Acrocephalus).
● ex “Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinée” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Aptenodytes patagonicus).
● ex “Troupiale” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 532 (syn. Icterus icterus).
● ex “Grimpar Nasican” of Levaillant 1807 (Nasica).
● ex “Râle à long bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 849, and “Long-billed Rail” of Latham 1785 (Rallus).
Longirostris
(syn. Limnodromus Ϯ Short-billed Dowitcher L. grisea) L. longus long; -rostris
-billed < rostrum beak; "Longirostris is, I think, preferable to Macroramfus [sic] for the genus Longbeak" (C. T. Wood 1836). Var. Longirostra (Wood 1837: "Brown Longbeak. Macroramfe ponctue, - Roth M[acroramfe]. Longirostra grisea, Wood. .. Longbeak, Longirostris, Wood").
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)