Galapagos Penguin

Galapagos Penguin / Spheniscus mendiculus

Galapagos Penguin

Here the details of the Galapagos Penguin named bird below:

SCI Name:  Spheniscus mendiculus
Protonym:  Spheniscus mendiculus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.126,129
Taxonomy:  Sphenisciformes / Spheniscidae /
Taxonomy Code:  galpen1
Type Locality:  Galapagos Islands.
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Publish Year:  1871
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DEFINITIONS

SPHENISCUS
(Spheniscidae; Ϯ Jackass Penguin S. demersus) Dim. < Gr. σφην sphēn, σφηνος sphēnos wedge; "Genre du Manchot. (1)    Genus Sphenisci. (1)  ....  (1) Manchot, nom que j'ai donné aux Oiseaux de ce genre à cause de la briéveté de leurs ailes.  ...  (1) Spheniscus, nomen a me hujus generis Avibus inditum" (Brisson 1760): based on Diomedea demersa Linnaeus, 1758, and "Anser Magellanica", "Pinguin" or "Penguin" of various earlier authors; "Spheniscus Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 52; 6, p. 96. Type, by monotypy, "Manchot" et "Manchot tachété" = Diomedea demersa Linné." (Peters 1931, 1, 33). The Jackass Penguin, so-called from its braying cries, is sometimes known as African Penguin. 
Synon. Dypsicles, Hyponectes, Molinaea, Penguinus.  
● (syn. Fratercula Ϯ Atlantic Puffin F. arctica) "PAPPEGAAIDUIKER, in 't Latyn Spheniscus.*  De soorten van Duiker en Aarsvoet, by LINNÆUS, Syst. Nat. gesl. 51 & 52." (Moehring 1758).

mendiculus
L. mendiculus beggarly < mendicus beggar.