Giant Ibis

SCI Name:  Pseudibis gigantea
Protonym:  Ibis gigantea Bull.Soc.Philom.(7), 1 p.25
Taxonomy:  Pelecaniformes / Threskiornithidae / Pseudibis
Taxonomy Code:  giaibi1
Type Locality:  Mekong River, Cambodia.
Author:  Oustalet
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

PSEUDIBIS
(Threskiornithidae; Ϯ Red-naped Ibis P. papillosa) Gr. ψευδος pseudos  false; ιβις ibis, ιβιδος ibidos  ibis; "I. (Pseudibis) papillosa, [drawing no.] 619." (Hodgson 1844); "Pseudibis Hodgson, in Gray's Zoöl. Misc., 1844, p. 86. Type, by monotypy, Ibis papillosa Temminck." (Peters 1931, 1, 132).
Synon. Graptocephalus, Inocotis.

gigantea / giganteus
L. giganteus  gigantic, of the giants  < gigas, gigantis  giant  < Gr. γιγας gigas, γιγαντος gigantos  giant.
● ex “Coucal Géant” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 223 (syn. Centropus phasianinus).
● ex “Touraco Géant” of Levaillant 1806 (syn. Corythaeola cristata).
● ex Grus leucogeranus Pallas, 1773, and “Sibirian Crane” of Pennant 1785, and Latham 1785 (syn. Grus leucogeranus).
● ex “Gigantic Crane” of Latham 1785 (syn. Leptoptilos dubius).
● ex “Ossifraga” of de Ulloa 1748, “Quebrantahuessos Mouton” of Pernety 1769, “Quebrantahuessos” of de Buffon 1770-1783, de Bougainville 1771, Cook 1777, and Forster 1777, “Osprey Petrel” of Forster 1778, and “Giant Petrel” of Latham 1785 (Macronectes).