Malayan Night-Heron
Malayan Night-Heron
Here the details of the Malayan Night-Heron named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ardea melanolopha Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.326
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Ardeidae / Gorsachius
Taxonomy Code: manher1
Type Locality: western Sumatra.
Author: Raffles
Publish Year: 1822
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GORSACHIUS
(Ardeidae; Ϯ Japanese Night Heron G. goisagi) Specific name Ardea goisagi Temminck, 1836; “122. Gorsachius, Pucheran. (Nycticorax! part. Gr.) Rostrum breve fere CUCULACEUM (LEPTOSOMI!) As. or. 1. ARDEA GOISAKI, Temm. (Botaurus goisagi, Reich. - Nycticorax goisagi, Gr. - Gorsachius typus, Pucheran.) Pl. col. 582. juv.. - Schleg., Faun. Jap. Av. t. 75. - Reich., Syst. Av. t. 149. f. 2566 et 2567. - Mus. Paris. adult. 1829. a Brossardo. et juv. a Temm. ex Japan. nec Ins. Philippensibus.” (Bonaparte 1855); "Gorsachius Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 2, 1855, p. 138. Type, by monotypy, Nycticorax goisagi Temminck." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 117).
Var. Goisachius, Goisakius, Goraschius, Gorsakius.
Synon. Butio, Limnophylax, Oroanassa.
melanolophus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; λοφος lophos crest.
Melanolophus
(syn. Clamator Ϯ Jacobin Cuckoo C. jacobinus serratus) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; λοφος lophos crest; "The name of Edolius Lesson (1830), type Cuculus serratus Sparrmann, is preoccupied by Edolius Cuvier (1817), and I therefore re-name it MELANOLOPHUS, type C. serratus Sparrmann; this genus is characterised by having the first primary slightly shorter than the secondaries, the second primary equal to the sixth, the third and fifth equal and shorter than the fourth, which is longest." (A. Roberts 1922).
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)