Yellow-legged Brushturkey / Talegalla fuscirostris
Yellow-legged Brushturkey
SCI Name:
Protonym: Talegallus fuscirostris Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 9 p.332
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Megapodiidae / Talegalla
Taxonomy Code: bkbbrt1
Type Locality: Southern New Guinea and the Aru Islands, types from Epa and Hall Sound, New Guinea.
Author: Salvadori
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TALEGALLA
(Megapodidae; Ϯ Red-billed Brush-turkey T. cuvieri) French name Talève swamphen < Malagasy Talavana; L. gallus cock; “Genre. TALÉGALLE, talegalla, Less. ... Une seule espèce découverte par nous dans les forêts de la Nouvelle-Guinée sert de type à ce genre. C’est un oiseau entièrement noir, de taille d’une petite poule commune, et qui retrace quelques unes des formes des talèves ou porphyrions. C’est pour rappeler ces analogies que nous avons forgé le mot hybride talégalle. Cette espèce, par sa rareté, comme parce qu'elle fait le type d'un genre, a reçu le nom de TALÈGALLE DE CUVIER, talegalla Cuvieri, Less., Zool. de la Coq., pl. xxxviii” (Lesson 1828).
Var. Talagalla, Talegallus, Tallegallus.
fuscirostris
L. fuscus dusky; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-legged Brushturkey (meyeri)
SCI Name: Talegalla fuscirostris meyeri
meyeri / meyerianus / meyerii
● Dr Aron Baruch Meyer (known as Adolf Bernhard Meyer) (1840-1911) German physician, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea 1870-1873, Director of Royal Mus. Dresden 1874-1906, zoologist, anthropologist (Accipiter, Chalcites (ex Chrysococcyx splendidus Mayer, 1874), syn. Cinnyris jugularis plateni, Edolisoma, Epimachus, syn. Leptocoma sericea porphyrolaema (ex Hermotimia porphyrolaema scapulata Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1896), subsp. Myzomela nigrita, Pachycephala (ex Pachycephala affinis Meyer, 1884), Philemon (ex Tropidorhynchus inornatus Meyer, 1875), subsp. Pitohui kirhocephalus, subsp. Pucrasia macrolopha, syn. Rhipidura atra, subsp. Tanysiptera galatea, subsp. Timeliopsis fulvigula, syn. Todiramphus chloris, Trichoglossus, subsp. Xanthotis flaviventer (ex Ptilotis pyrrhotis Meyer, 1875)).
● Dr Bernhard Meyer (1767–1836) German botanist, ornithologist, collector (syn. Limosa lapponica, Poicephalus).
● Fr. P. Rudolf Otto Maria Meyer (1877-1937) German missionary to the Bismarck Archipelago 1902-1937 (syn. Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae, subsp. Hypotaenidia philippensis, subsp. Ptilinopus solomonensis).
Yellow-legged Brushturkey (aruensis)
SCI Name: Talegalla fuscirostris aruensis
aruense / aruensis
Aru Is., Moluccas, Indonesia.
Yellow-legged Brushturkey (occidentis)
SCI Name: Talegalla fuscirostris occidentis
occidentis
L. occidens, occidentis west, setting sun < occidere to set.
Yellow-legged Brushturkey (fuscirostris)
SCI Name: Talegalla fuscirostris fuscirostris
fuscirostris
L. fuscus dusky; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
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)