New Zealand Quail / Coturnix novaezelandiae
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New Zealand Quail
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Protonym: Coturnix Novae-Zelandiae Voy.AstrolabeZool. 1 p.242
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Phasianidae / Coturnix
Taxonomy Code: nezqua1
Type Locality: Bale Chouraki = Hawraki Gulf, North Island, New Zealand.
Author: Quoy & Gaimard
Publish Year: 1830
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
COTURNIX
(Phasianidae; Ϯ Common Quail C. coturnix) L. coturnix, coturnicis quail; "40e GENRE. { Caille. Le bec court, en cône-recourbé: les narines ovales, demi-fermées: la langue entière, pointue: point d'espace nud derrière les yeux: les pieds sans éperons. Coturnix. Rostrum breve, conico-incurvum: nares ovatæ, semi-tectæ: lingua integra, acuta: area pone oculos nulla: pedes mutici." (Bonnaterre 1791); "Coturnix Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Méth., Orn., pt. 1, 1791, p. lxxxvii. Type, by tautonymy, "Caille" = Tetrao coturnix Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 91). The Common Quail was formerly an abundant migrant summer visitor to Europe, but its numbers are now declining (see quelea and quiscula).
Var. Coturuix.
Synon. Compsortyx, Maroturnia, Ortygion, Palaeoperdix, Palaeortyx, Perdortyx, Pseudortigion, Schaubortyx, Zecoturnix.
coturnix
L. coturnix, coturnicis quail; “91. TETRAO. ... Coturnix. 13. T. pedibus nudis, corpore griseo-maculato, superciliis albis, rectricibus margine lunulaque ferruginea. Fn. svec. 173. Coturnix. Gesn. av. 353. Aldr. orn. l. 13. c. 22. Jonst. av. 69. t. 28. Raj. av. 58. Alb. av. I. p. 28. t. 30. Tetrao israelitarum. Hasselq. it. 279. n. 44. Habitat in Europa, Asia, Africa. Pennæ corporis ferrugineæ linea longitudinali albida. Chinenses vivum portanda manus calefaciunt. Osb. itin. 190." (Linnaeus 1758) (Coturnix).
novaezealandiae / novaezeelandiae / novaezelandiae
L. novus new; Mod. L. Zeelandia Zeeland, Netherlands; i.e. New Zealand (also New Zeeland or New Zeland, which received its name from the explorer Abel Tasman who explored the west coast in 1642, naming it Nova Zeelanda after his Dutch home).
● ex “Pacific Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (Cyanoramphus).
● Erroneous TL New Zealand (= probably Brazil) (syn. Megascops watsonii).
● Erroneous TL. New Zealand (= Falkland Islands) (syn. Phalcoboenus australis).
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)
