Eupodotis Gindiana Bird

Eupodotis Gindiana Bird

Eupodotis Gindiana Bird

English Name:  Buff-crested Bustard
Latin Name:  Eupodotis gindiana
Protonym:  Eupodotis Gindiana Bull.Soc.Philom.(7), 5 p.164
Taxonomy:  Otidiformes / Otididae / Eupodotis
Taxonomy Code:  bucbus1
Type Locality:  East Africa between Somaliland and Zanzibar.
Author:  Oustalet
Publish Year:  1881
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EUPODOTIS
(Otididae; Ϯ Senegal Bustard E. senegalensis) Gr. ευπους eupous, ευποδος eupodos  swift of foot  < ευ eu  perfection; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; ωτις ōtis, ωτιδος ōtidos  bustard; "14e genre OUTARDE, Otis, L.  ...  3e sous-genre Eupodotis.  Quatorze espèces: O. rhaad, O. arabs, O. afra, O. afraoides, O. Denhami, O. nuba, O. caffra, O. cœrulescens, O. Vigorsii, O. melanogaster, O. ferox, O. scolopacea, O. Senegalensis, O. nigriceps." (Lesson 1839); "Eupodotis Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 47. Type, by subsequent designation, Otis rhaad Rüppell not of Gmelin = Otis senegalensis Vieillot. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 64.)" (Peters, 1934, II, p. 222).
Synon. Trachelotis.

gindiana
Abdou or Abden Gindi (fl. 1880) Egyptian explorer, collector in Zanzibar, Abyssinia and Somaliland (Lophotis).