Alaemon Alaudipes Bird
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Alaemon Alaudipes Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Upupa alaudipes Hist.Acad.R.Sci.Paris(1787) -1787 p.504 pl.16 cdP
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Alaemon
Taxonomy Code: grhlar1
Type Locality: between Gafsa and Tozzer, Tunisia.
Author: Desfontaines
Publish Year: 1789
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ALAEMON
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Greater Hoopoe Lark A. alaudipes desertorum) Gr. αλημων alēmōn, αλημονος alēmonos wanderer < αλαομαι alaomai to wander; "GEN. 34. ALAEMON. 78. AL. DESERTORUM Stanley. — Alauda desertorum Stanley. Salt's Reise app. p. LX. — Alauda bifasciata Lichtenst. Doubl. p. 28. n. 285. In den Sandebenen Nord-Afrika's, in Candia, einzeln zufällig in Sicilien und der Provence angetroffen. ... Wüstenlerche." (von Keyserling & Blasius 1840); "Alaemon Keyserling and Blasius, 1840, Wirbelth. Europas, 1, p. xxvi. Type, by monotypy, Alauda desertorum Stanley." (Peters 1960, IX, p. 39).
alaudipes
L. alauda lark; pes, pedis foot < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos foot.
● A seemingly pointless name for the Hoopoe Lark, but, because of its curved bill and pied wing-pattern, it was originally described as a type of hoopoe Upupa, the “Huppe aux pieds d’alouette” of Desfontaines 1789 (Alaemon).
SUBSPECIES
Greater Hoopoe-Lark (Cape Verde)
Latin Name: Alaemon alaudipes boavistae
boavistae
Boa Vista I., Cape Verde Is.
Greater Hoopoe-Lark (Mainland)
Latin Name: Alaemon alaudipes [alaudipes Group]
ALAEMON
(Alaudidae; Ϯ Greater Hoopoe Lark A. alaudipes desertorum) Gr. αλημων alēmōn, αλημονος alēmonos wanderer < αλαομαι alaomai to wander; "GEN. 34. ALAEMON. 78. AL. DESERTORUM Stanley. — Alauda desertorum Stanley. Salt's Reise app. p. LX. — Alauda bifasciata Lichtenst. Doubl. p. 28. n. 285. In den Sandebenen Nord-Afrika's, in Candia, einzeln zufällig in Sicilien und der Provence angetroffen. ... Wüstenlerche." (von Keyserling & Blasius 1840); "Alaemon Keyserling and Blasius, 1840, Wirbelth. Europas, 1, p. xxvi. Type, by monotypy, Alauda desertorum Stanley." (Peters 1960, IX, p. 39).
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)
