Swinhoe’s Rail / Coturnicops exquisitus
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Swinhoe's Rail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Porzana exquisita Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(4), 12 p.376
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Coturnicops
Taxonomy Code: swirai1
Type Locality: Cheefoo, China.
Author: Swinhoe
Publish Year: 1873
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
COTURNICOPS
(Rallidae; Ϯ Yellow Rail C. noveboracensis) L. coturnix, coturnicis quail; Gr. ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos appearance. "In SIZE lesser than an English Quail" (Pennant 1787); "a. Ralleæ. ... *2017. Coturnicops, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); "1991. COTURNICOPS, Pr. B. 1854. (Rallus noveboracensis, Gm.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Coturnicops "Pr. B. 1854"1 G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. and Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 120. Type, by monotypy, Rallus noveboracensis Gmelin = Fulica noveboracensis Gmelin. ... 1 This name is a nomen nudum at its first appearance in Ann.Sci. Nat., Zool. (4), 1, 1854, p. 150." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 193).
Synon. Ortygops.
exquisita / exquisitus
L. exquisitus choice, exquisite < exquirere to seek out < quaerere to search for.
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)
