Kashmir Nutcracker
Kashmir Nutcracker
Here the details of the Kashmir Nutcracker named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Nucifraga multipunctata Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part XVII, Meeting of February 27, 1849 p. 23
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Nucifraga
Taxonomy Code: sponut1
Type Locality: India [= northwestern Himalayas]; restricted to Kashmir north of the Pir Panjal Range by Vaurie (1954, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1668, p. 13).
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1849
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NUCIFRAGA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Northern Nutcracker N. caryocatactes) Late Med. L. nucifraga a name given to the Northern Nutcracker by Turner 1544, as a translation of the German name Nussbrecher nut-breaker < L. nux, nucis nut; frangere to shatter; "{Plumis basis rostri antrorsum incumbentibus, naresque tegentibus ... {Rostro recto ... {Mandibula superiore longiore & obtusa . . . . . Nucifraga. Genus 17. ... **1. LE CASSE-NOIX. ... NUCIFRAGA ... Nucibus, Amygdalis, &c. victitat" (Brisson 1760); based on "Nucifraga" and "Caryocatactes" of Gessner 1555, Schwenckfeld 1603, and other authors, "Ossifragus" and "Coccothraustes" of Rzaczynski 1721, and "Nut-Cracker" of Edwards 1751; "Nucifraga Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 1, p. 30. Type, by tautonymy, "nucifraga," ibid., 2, p. 59 = Corvus caryocatactes Linnaeus." (Vaurie in Peters 1962, XV, 256).
Synon. Caryocatactes, Picicorvus.
nucifraga
Late Med. L. nucifraga a name given to the Spotted Nutcracker by Turner 1544, as a translation of the German name Nussbrecher nut-breaker < L. nux, nucis nut; frangere to shatter. Var. Nuciphraga.
multipunctata
L. multi- many < multus much; Mod. L. punctatus spotted < L. punctum spot < pungere to puncture.
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)