Rouget’s Rail / Rougetius rougetii
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Rouget's Rail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Rallus Rougetii Rev.Zool. 6 p.322
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Rougetius
Taxonomy Code: rourai1
Type Locality: Ethiopia.
Author: Guérin-Méneville
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
ROUGETIUS
(Rallidae; Ϯ Rouget's Rail R. rougetii) Dr. Jules Rouget (d. 1841) French physician, explorer, collector in Abyssinia 1839-1841 (cf. specific name Rallus rougetii Guérin-Méneville, 1843); "112. Rougetius, Bp. 336. abyssinicus, Rupp. (R. rougeti, Guérin.) 337. gularis, Cuv. nec Jard. (cuvieri, Pucher.) 338. bernieri, Bp. (cuvieri ex Madag. Puch.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Rougetius Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, 1856, p. 599. Type, by tautonymy, Rallus abyssinicus Rüppell = Rallus rougetii Guérin-Méneville." (Peters 1934, II, 171).
Synon. Calamodromus.
rougetii
Dr Jules Rouget (d. 1841) French physician, explorer, collector in Abyssinia 1839-1841 (Rougetius).
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)
