Scale-feathered Malkoha
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Scale-feathered Malkoha
Here the details of the Scale-feathered Malkoha named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Phoenicophaus Cumingi Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt7 no.79 p.112
Taxonomy: Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Dasylophus
Taxonomy Code: scfmal1
Type Locality: Luzon, Philippine Islands.
Author: Fraser
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DASYLOPHUS
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Red-crested Malkoha D. superciliosus) Gr. δασυς dasus hairy, shaggy; λοφος lophos crest; "DASYLOPHUS, Sw. (fig. 286.a) Bill rather large, compressed its whole length. Gonys angulated. Culmen convex, gradually arched. Frontal feathers incumbent, and concealing the nostrils. Feathers before the eye erect, forming a double crest. D. superciliosus. Sw." (Swainson 1837); "Dasylophus Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 324. Type, by monotypy, D. superciliosus Sw. = Phoenicophaus superciliosus Dumont." (Peters,1940, IV, p. 56).
cumingi / cumingii
Hugh Cuming (1791-1865) English naturalist, conchologist, collector in tropical America 1822-1826, 1828-1830, Polynesia 1827-1828, and the East Indies 1836-1840 (Lepidogrammus, syn. Macronus striaticeps mindanensis, Megapodius).
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)
