Chrysococcyx Klaas Bird

Klaas\'s Cuckoo / Chrysococcyx klaas

Chrysococcyx Klaas Bird

English Name:  Klaas's Cuckoo
Latin Name:  Chrysococcyx klaas
Protonym:  Cuculus Klaas Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 9 pt1 p.128
Taxonomy:  Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Chrysococcyx
Taxonomy Code:  klacuc1
Type Locality:  Cape Colony.
Author:  Stephens
Publish Year:  1815
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHRYSOCOCCYX
(Cuculidae; African Emerald Cuckoo C. cupreus) Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; κοκκυξ kokkux, κοκκυγος kokkugos  cuckoo; "XXVIII. Fam. Cuculidae   ...   Chrysococcyx: Cuculus cupreus Lath. u. a." (Boie 1826); "Chrysococcyx Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 977.  Type, by monotypy, Cuculus cupreus Latham = Cuculus cupreus Shaw." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 29).
Synon. Adamatornis, Adetococcyx, Lamprococcyx, Lampromorpha, Metallococcyx.

klaas / klaasi / klaasii
Klaas (fl. 1784) Khoikhoi hunter and collector who accompanied the French explorer François Levaillant on his expeditions in South Africa; ex “Coucou de Klaas” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 212. “But we fully concur with those who censure the practice of naming species after persons of no scientific reputation, as curiosity dealers (Caniveti, Boissoneauti), Peruvian priestesses (Cora, Amazilia), or Hottentots (Klassi [sic])” (Strickland Code 1842) (Chrysococcyx).