Large-billed Lark
Large-billed Lark
Here the details of the Large-billed Lark named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Alauda magnirostris Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 14 pt1 p.26
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Galerida
Taxonomy Code: lablar1
Type Locality: South Africa = Cape Town, ex Levaillant.
Author: Stephens
Publish Year: 1826
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GALERIDA
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Crested Lark G. cristata) L. galerita, galeritus, galerius or avis galerita lark with a crest, either the Crested Lark or the Eurasian Skylark < galerum cap, bonnet < galea helmet; "Fam. Alaudidae. Gattung Galerida 4 Hieher aus Europa: 1. Alauda cristata Lin. 2. — undata Gm. Africa: 3. cinerea Gm. 4. isabellina Tem. col. 244. fig. 2. ... 4 Plin." (Boie 1828); "Galerida Boie, 1828, Isis von Oken, col. 321. Type, by subsequent designation, Alauda cristata Linnaeus (Gray, 1840, List. Gen. Birds, p. 47)." (Peters, 1960, IX, p. 55).
Var. Galerita, Golerida.
Synon. Calendula, Corydus, Erana, Heliocorys, Heterops, Ptilocorys, Spizalauda.
magnirostre / magnirostris
L. magnus great; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (Galerida).
● ex “Épervier à gros bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 464, and “Great-billed Falcon” of Latham 1781 (Rupornis).
SUBSPECIES
Large-billed Lark (sedentaria)
SCI Name: Galerida magnirostris sedentaria
sedentaria / sedentarius
L. sedentarius sedentary, sitting < sedere to sit.
Large-billed Lark (magnirostris)
SCI Name: Galerida magnirostris magnirostris
magnirostre / magnirostris
L. magnus great; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (Galerida).
● ex “Épervier à gros bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 464, and “Great-billed Falcon” of Latham 1781 (Rupornis).
Large-billed Lark (harei)
SCI Name: Galerida magnirostris harei
harei
Henry Leighton Hare (fl. 1920) English civil servant in South Africa, ornithologist, collector (subsp. Calendulauda africanoides, syn. Certhilauda burra, syn. Dendropicos fuscescens, syn. Eupodotis vigorsii namaqua, subsp. Galerida magnirostris).
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)