Moluccan Woodcock
Moluccan Woodcock
Here the details of the Moluccan Woodcock named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Scolopax rochussenii Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 3 p.254
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Scolopacidae / Scolopax
Taxonomy Code: molwoo1
Type Locality: Obi Major.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1866
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
SCOLOPAX
(Scolopacidae; Ϯ Eurasian Woodcock S. rusticola) L. scolopax, scolopacis snipe, woodcock < Gr. σκολοπαξ skolopax, σκολοπακος skolopakos woodcock < ασκαλωπας askalōpas or ασκαλοπας askalopas woodcock; "77. SCOLOPAX. Rostrum teretiusculum, obtusum, capite longius. Pedes tetradactyli: postico pluribus articulis insistente. ... Species Scolopacum, Tringarum &c. difficillime distinguuntur, ætate sexuque mutabiles, colore parum distinctæ; quæ pedibus sunt rubris a reliquis probe observandæ, cum pedes non varient. ... Scolopaces digitis quatuor insistunt, per paludes vadant. Tringæ per campos littoraque currunt vix digito postico insistentes, uti rite Cel. Kleynius notavit." (Linnaeus 1758); "Scolopax Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 145. Type, by tautonymy, Scolopax rusticola Linné (Scolopax, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1934, II, 278). Linnaeus's Scolopax comprised fourteen species (S. rubra, S. alba, S. fusca, S. Totanus, S. Arquata, S. Phæopus, S. Rusticola, S. Fedoa, S. Glottis, S. Limosa, S. Gallinago, S. lapponica, S. Ægocephala, S. Hæmatica). Until the early 1800s Scolopax was used in a very broad sense, and included various snipe, sandpipers, godwits and curlew.
Var. Scopolax, Soclopax, Siolopax.
Synon. Microptera, Neoscolopax, Parascolopax, Philohela, Rubicola, Rusticola.
scolopax
L. scolopax, scolopacis woodcock, snipe (e.g. barred, striped) < Gr. σκολοπαξ skolopax, σκολοπακος skolopakos woodcock < ασκαλωπας askalōpas or ασκαλοπας askalopas woodcock (syn. Burhinus oedicnemus).
rochussenii
Jan Jacob Rochussen (1797-1871) Gov.-Gen. of the Dutch East Indies 1845-1851 (Scolopax).
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)