Temminck’s Tragopan
Temminck's Tragopan
Here the details of the Temminck's Tragopan named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Satyra Temminckii Ill.Ind.Zool.[Hardwicke] 1 pt9 pl.50
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Phasianidae / Tragopan
Taxonomy Code: temtra1
Type Locality: No locaUty; the type in the British Museum is from China = Szechuan apud Stuart Baker, antea, p. 350.
Author: Gray, JE
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TRAGOPAN
(Phasianidae; † Satyr Tragopan T. satyra) L. tragopan, tragopanis fabulous, horned purple-headed bird mentioned by Pliny and Pomponius Mela < Gr. τραγοπαν tragopan, τραγοπανος tragopanos unknown large Ethiopian bird, perhaps a hornbill; "LE TRAGOPAN. (TRAGOPAN, Cuv.) Est l'un des oiseaux dont la tête est, dans le mâle, le plus bizarrement ornée. Presque nue, elle a derrière chaque œil une petite corne grêle; sous la gorge est un fanon susceptible d'extension. Ses tarses ont des éperons courts dans les deux sexes. On n'en connaît qu'une espèce, originaire du nord de l'Inde, (le Nepaul ou Faisan cornu, Buff.; Penelope satyra, Gm.; Meleagris satyrus, Lath.) Edw., 116; Vieill., Gal., 206, de la taille du coq, d'un rouge éclatant semé de petites larmes blanches. La femelle et le jeune sont de différents bruns." (Cuvier 1829); "Tragopan Cuvier, Règne Anim., nouv. éd., 1, 1829, p. 479. Type, by monotypy, Meleagris satyra Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 109).
Var. Tragopon, Tragupan, Trapogon.
Synon. Ceratornix, Ceriornis, Diceratornis, Satyra.
• (Bucerotidae; syn. Bucorvus † Northern Ground Hornbill B. abyssinicus) Gr. τραγοπαν tragopan, τραγοπανος tragopanos unknown large Ethiopian bird, perhaps a hornbill; "4. TRAGOPAN. Rhinoceros avis BONT. & RAI. Des. Rostrum falcatum, basi superne in cornu recurvum excrescente. Lingua . . . . Cauda . . . . Digiti . . . . Obs. Tragopan nomen PLINII est, quod male ap. CHARLET. Onom. Tragopanda vertitur." (Moehring 1752); "TRAGOPAN, Mœhr. (1752). Bucorvus, Less. (1831). Buceros, Gm. T. abyssinicus, (Gm.) G. R. Gray. Pl. enl. 779." (G. Gray 1841); "Tragopan "Moehring" G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 65. Type, by original designation, T. abyssinicus (Gm.), i.e. Buceros abyssinicus Boddaert, 1783." (JAJ 2021).
temmincki / temminckii / temminkii
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858) Dutch ornithologist (subsp. Accipiter melanoleucus, Aethopyga, syn. Anser erythropus, syn. Arachnothera crassirostris, syn. Ardea sumatrana, Calidris, syn. Calyptorhynchus lathami, syn. Cecropis daurica rufula, syn. Colinus cristatus, Columba artefact (ex Columba auricularis Temminck, 1813), Coracias (ex “Rollier Temminck” of Levaillant 1806), Coracina, syn. Corydon sumatranus (ex Eurylaimus corydon Temminck, 1824), syn. Crax rubra (ex “Red Peruvian Hen” of Albin 1738, and Crax rubra Temminck, 1815), Cursorius, syn. Dendrexetastes rufigula, syn. Ducula perspicillata, syn. Gallus varius x hybrid, syn. Harpactes kasumba, syn. Heliomaster squamosus, syn. Lobotos lobatus, Lyncornis, subsp. Myophonus caeruleus, syn. Nipponia nippon (ex Ibis nippon Temminck, 1835), Orthonyx, Picoides, Picumnus, syn. Prunella montanella, syn. Pterophanes cyanopterus, Ptilinopus, syn. Ramphastos vitellinus ariel, syn. Sittasomus griseicapillus sylviellus (ex Dendrocolaptes sylviellus Temminck, 1821), syn. Synthliboramphus wumisuzume, Tragopan (ex “Chinese Horned Pheasant” of Hardwicke 1831)).
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)