Crested Partridge / Rollulus rouloul
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Crested Partridge
SCI Name:
Protonym: Phasianus Roulroul Del.Flor.Faun.Insubr. 2 p.93
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Phasianidae / Rollulus
Taxonomy Code: crepar1
Type Locality: Malacca.
Author: Scopoli
Publish Year: 1786
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
ROLLULUS
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Crested Partridge R. rouloul) Specific name Phasianus rouloul Scopoli, 1786; "85e GENRE. { Rouloul. Le bec court, en forme de cône, convexe, légèrement fléchi: les narines oblongues: le front dégarni de plumes: l'occiput orné d'une huppe: le doigt postérieur plus gros que ceux de devant, plus court et tronqué. Rollulus. Rostrum breve, conicum, convexum, leviter inflexum: nares oblongæ: frons calva: occiput cristatum: digitus posticus anterioribus crassior, brevior & truncatus." (Bonnaterre 1791); "Rollulus Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Méth., Orn., pt. 1, 1791, p. xciii. Type, by monotypy, "Roulroul" = Phasianus roulroul Scopoli." (Peters 1934, II, 104).
Synon. Cryptonyx, Liponyx, Rulula.
rouloul
French name “Rouloul de Malacca” given to the Crested Partridge by Sonnerat 1782 (said to be based on a Malay name Roulroul, which, however, appears neither in Winstedt 1949, Wilkinson 1959, nor Wells 1999) (Rollulus).
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)
