Junin Grebe
Junin Grebe
Here the details of the Junin Grebe named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Podiceps taczanowskii Ibis p.109 pl.4
Taxonomy: Podicipediformes / Podicipedidae / Podiceps
Taxonomy Code: jungre1
Type Locality: Lake Junin, Peru.
Author: von Berlepsch & Stolzmann
Publish Year: 1894
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
PODICEPS
(Podicipedidae; Ϯ Great Crested Grebe P. cristatus) L. podex, podicis vent, anus; pes, pedis foot < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos foot; the legs of the Great Crested Grebe are set back to the rear of the body, giving rise to a former name “Arsefoot” which may have influenced Latham's coinage; "GENUS LXXIX. GREBE. PODICEPS, (Colymbus, Lin.)" (Latham 1787); "Podiceps Latham, 1787, General Synop. Birds, Suppl., p. 294. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 76) and under plenary powers of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1956, Opin. Decl. Rend., 13, p. 4, Colymbus cristatus Linnaeus." (Storer in Peters 1979, 1, 2nd. ed., 148).
Var. Podicepes, Podicipes, Pocicpes.
Synon. Calipareus, Colymbus, Dytes, Lophaithyia, Otodytes, Pedetaithya, Podicephorus, Proctopus, Thiornis.
podiceps
L. podex, podicis vent, anus; pes, pedis foot < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos foot.
● "*4. Ard. podiceps, Bp. Mus. Paris. a Berniero 1834. ex Madagascar." (Bonaparte 1855); probably alluding to the vaguely grebe-like plumage, slender bill and short tail of the Little Bittern (subsp. Ixobrychus minutus).
● "68. COLYMBUS. ... Podiceps. 4. C. pedibus lobatis, corpore fusco, rostro fascia sesqui altera. Podiceps minor, rostro vario. Catesb. car. 1. p. 91. t. 91. Habitat in America septentrionali." (Linnaeus 1758) (Podilymbus).
taczanowskia / taczanowskii / taczanowskius
Władysław Taczanowski (1819-1890) Polish zoologist, collector, Curator of Zoology, Warsaw University Mus., 1862-1890 (subsp. Asthenes flammulata, Atlapetes (ex Buarremon mystacalis Taczanowski, 1874), Cinclodes, syn. Columba rupestris, subsp. Euphonia chlorotica, syn. Garrulus glandarius brandtii, syn. Heliangelus clarisse, subsp. Icterus mesomelas, Leptopogon, Leucippus, syn. Limnodromus semipalmatus, syn. Locustella luteoventris, Nothoprocta, Onychostruthus, subsp. Picumnus lafresnayi, Podiceps, subsp. Riparia riparia, Sicalis, subsp. Tetrao urogallus, syn. Thalurania furcata jelskii).
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)