Northern Cassowary / Casuarius unappendiculatus
Northern Cassowary
SCI Name:
Protonym: Casuarius unappendiculatus J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 29 p.112
Taxonomy: Casuariiformes / Casuariidae / Casuarius
Taxonomy Code: norcas1
Type Locality: no locality.
Author: Blyth
Publish Year: 1860
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CASUARIUS
(Casuariidae; Ϯ Double-wattled Cassowary C. casuarius) Malay name Kasuāri for these large cursorial birds (cf. "kassuwaris, a native name" (Richmond 1902)); "CASOAR ... CASUARIUS ... Il est presqu'aussi gros que l'Autruche; mais il n'est pas si élevé" (Brisson 1760); based on "Avis Eme" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, "Emeu" of Clusius 1605, Charleton 1668, Willughby 1676, Ray 1713, Barrère 1745, and Linnaeus 1748, "Casearius" of Wormius 1655, "Casoaris" of Bontius 1658, "Cassowary" of Albin 1731-1738, "Casuarius" of Frisch 1733, and Klein 1750, "Cela" of Moehring 1752, and Struthio casuarius Linnaeus, 1758; "Casuarius, av malayiska namnet "Casoaris" hos BONTIUS, åt hvilket LINNÉ år 1735 givit en latinsk form, är här i det följande (Ord. 7) utbytt mot Hippalectryo Glog." (Sundevall 1873); "Casuarius Brisson, Orn., 1, 1760, p. 46; 5, p. 10. Type, by tautonymy, Casuarius Brisson = Struthio casuarius Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 5).
Var. Casoaris, Casoarius, Casearius.
Synon. Cassowara, Cela, Hippalectryo, Oxyporus, Thrasys.
casuarius
Malay name Kasuari for the Double-wattled Cassowary (Suwari of Newton & Gadow 1896; Kasuārī of SOED 1944; Kesuari of New Oxford Dict. English 2001); "86. STRUTHIO. ... Casuarius. 2. S. pedibus tridactylis, vertice palearibusque nudis. Casuarius. Olear. mus. 23. t. 13. f. 2. Alb. av. 2. p. 56. t. 60. Emeu. Dodart. mem. 377. Raj. av. 36. Clus. exot. 98. Bont. jav. 71. Will. ornith. 105. t. 25. Worm. mus. . . Jonst. av. 172. t. 56. Aldr. orn. l. 20. t. 541. Habitat in Asia, Sumatra, Molucca, Banda. Callus elevatus quasi diadema verticis. Palearia 2 sub collo; Collum a tergo nudum. Ungue intermedio majore ferit; ova punctis excavatis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Casuarius).
unappendiculatus
Mod. L. unappendiculatus single-wattled < L. unus one; appendicula small appendage < dim. appendix, appendicis appendage.
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)