Crested Ibis / Nipponia nippon
Crested Ibis
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ibis nippon Pl.Col. livr.93 pl.551
Taxonomy: Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae / Nipponia
Taxonomy Code: creibi1
Type Locality: Japan.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1835
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
NIPPONIA
(Threskiornithidae; Ϯ Japanese Crested Ibis N. nippon) Specific name Ibis nippon Temminck, 1835; "Genera et species typicae. ... δ. Nipponia Rchb. Temminckii R. Ic. Av. t. 141. ic. 538. t. 149. ic. 2569." (Reichenbach 1852); "Nipponia Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., 1852 (1853), p. xiv. Type, by monotypy, Ibis temminckii Reichenbach = Ibis nippon Temminck." (Peters 1931, 1, 133).
nippon / nipponensis
Japanese name Nippon for their home islands < nishi sun; pon source (land of the rising sun).
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)