Turnix Sylvaticus Bird
Turnix Sylvaticus Bird
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Latin Name:
Protonym: Tetrao sylvaticus Hist.Acad.R.Sci.Paris(1787) -1787 p.500 pl.13
Taxonomy: Charadriiformes / Turnicidae / Turnix
Taxonomy Code: smabut2
Type Locality: Near Algiers.
Author: Desfontaines
Publish Year: 1789
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TURNIX
(Turnicidae; Ϯ Striped Buttonquail T. sylvaticus) Curtailment of genus Coturnix Bonnaterre, 1791, quail (reflecting the absence of the rear toe) (cf. "The name Turnix thus signifies a small quail or 'half-quail', again hinting at the notable resemblance between buttonquails and the unrelated (and bigger) quails." (Peacock 2016)); “3e. GENRE. {Turnix. Le bec conique, mince, un peu recourbé: les narines prolongées jusqu'au milieu du bec: la langue entière. ... IIIe. GENRE. TURNIX, Turnix. ... Les pattes divisées en trois doigts & plus courtes que les rectrices: trois doigts nus, posés par devant; il n'y en a point par derrière. ... Ces oiseaux ressemblent aux Cailles par sa forme du corps; mais ils en diffèrent par la structure des pattes et par leurs mœurs. ... *TURNIX D'AFRIQUE. 1. T. Africanus. Cet oiseau, que M. Desfontaines a trouvé sur les côtes de Barbarie, se rapproche du Pluvier par la structure des pattes, qui sont dépourvues du doigt postérieur; mais il a beaucoup de rapport avec la Caille par sa conformation extérieure, son vol & les couleurs de sa livrée. Il est d'un tiers plus petit que le Caille d'Europe. ... *LE TURNIX. 2. T. nigricollis ... Le Turnix ou la Caille de Madagascar, qui est représenté dans les planches enluminées, nº. 171, diffère, à certains égards, de celui qui a été décrir par M. Brisson, quoiqu'ils soient de la même espèce. ... *LE TURNIX DE GIBRALTAR. 3. T. Gibraltarica. ... *LE TURNIX D'ANDALOUSIE 4. T. Andalusica. ... *LE TURNIX DE L'ILE DE LUÇON. 5. T. Luzoniensis. ... Ce Turnix habite l'Ile de Luçon, l'une des Manilles.” (Bonnaterre 1791); "Turnix Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. Méth., Orn., pt. 1, 1791, p. lxxxii, 5. Type, by subsequent designation, Tetrao gibraltaricus Gmelin = Tetrao sylvaticus Desfontaines. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 63.)" (Peters 1934, II, 142). Note that Turnix Rafinesque, 1815, is a replacement name for "Tridactilis" (= Tridactylus) de Lacépède, 1801.
Synon. Alphaturnia, Areortyx, Areoturnix, Austroturnix, Colcloughia, Hemipodius, Marianornis, Ortygis, Ortygodes, Ortyx, Tridactylus.
sylvaticus
L. silvaticus of the woods, wild < silva woodland, forest.
SUBSPECIES
Small Buttonquail (sylvaticus)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus sylvaticus
sylvaticus
L. silvaticus of the woods, wild < silva woodland, forest.
Small Buttonquail (lepurana)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus lepurana
lepurana
Tswana name Lephurrwane or Liphùrrwàni for the Kurrichane Buttonquail, with reference to its whirring flight; "The names given by the Natives to the objects above described, I have adopted as the trivial ones" (A. Smith 1836) (Turnix).
Small Buttonquail (dussumier)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus dussumier
dussumier / dussumierei / dussumieri / dusumieri
Jean-Jacques Dussumier (1792-1883) French merchant, ship-owner, traveller, collector in the East Indies and Philippines (subsp. Accipiter badius, syn. Aythya baeri, Cinnyris, syn. Coracina striata, Streptopelia, Turnix).
Small Buttonquail (davidi)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus davidi
davidi / davidiana / davidianus / davidii
● Abbé Père Jean Pierre Armand David (1826-1900) French missionary to China 1858-1874, naturalist (subsp. Alcippe morrisonia (ex Alcippe cinerea David, 1871), syn. Anser caerulescens, syn. Calliope pectardens, subsp. Carpodacus pulcherrimus, subsp. Cyanoderma ruficeps, syn. Cygnus cygnus, Garrulax, subsp. Horornis fortipes, Locustella, Neosuthora, Niltava, syn. Phylloscopus armandii, syn. Phylloscopus subaffinis, Poecile, syn. Pucrasia macrolopha xanthospila, Pyrgilauda, subsp. Strix uralensis, syn. Turdus obscurus).
● "Cette sous-espèce est dédiée à Monsieur le Professeur Louis David." (Mourer-Chauviré 1975) (subsp. Bubo bubo).
● Louis Henri André David-Beaulieu (1896-1969) French colonial adminstrator in Indochina, naturalist (Arborophila, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).
● Pierre-Jean David known as David d’Angers (1788-1856) French sculptor (syn. Phaethornis ruber).
● Dr William David Kerr MacGillivray (1867-1933) Australian physician, naturalist, oologist (syn. Rhipidura rufiventris isura).
● Flight-Lt. Dr David Lakin Harrison (1926-2015) RAF physician, zoologist, taxonomist, palaeontologist (syn. Sitta europaea persica).
Small Buttonquail (whiteheadi)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus whiteheadi
whiteheadi
● John Whitehead (1860-1899) British explorer, collector in Borneo 1885-1888, the Philippines 1893-1896, and Hainan 1899 (Aerodramus, Calyptomena, syn. Dicaeum haematostictum, subsp. Dicrurus leucophaeus (ex Buchanga palawanensis Whitehead, 1890), Harpactes, syn. Leptocoma sperata henkei, subsp. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Nisaetus nipalensis, syn. Pachycephala grisola plateni, subsp. Prioniturus discurus, Sitta, syn. Strix seloputo wiepkeni, syn. Trichastoma bicolor, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus, Urocissa, Urosphena, subsp. Zosterops montanus, Zosterornis).
● Maj. Charles Hugh Tempest Whitehead (1880-1915) British Army in India, collector (syn. Zoothera mollissima).
Small Buttonquail (nigrorum)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus nigrorum
nigrorum
● Mod. L. Nigrorum of Negros, Philippines; the island was named Isla de Negros by the Spaniards because of its dark-skinned inhabitants < L. niger black.
● Mod. L. Terra Nigrorum land of the negroes (i.e. West Africa); "Alseonax cinereus nigrorum nom. nov. versus A. cinereus cinerascens (Sharpe). Muscicapa cinerascens Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv, p. 155 (1879 - Gold Coast), nec Spix, Aves Bras. ii, p. 16, pl. xii (1825)" (Collin & Hartert 1927) (subsp. Fraseria caerulescens).
Small Buttonquail (celestinoi)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus celestinoi
celestinoi
● Andres Celestino (fl. 1903) Tagalog collector for John Whitehead 1895, assistant to McGregor 1903 in the Philippines, father of Manuel Celestino (syn. Phapitreron amethystinus, subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).
● Manuel Celestino (fl. 1949) Tagalog collector, plant-hunter in the Philippines (subsp. Psilopogon haemacephalus).
Small Buttonquail (suluensis)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus suluensis
suluensis
Sulu Is., Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
Small Buttonquail (bartelsorum)
Latin Name: Turnix sylvaticus bartelsorum
bartelsorum
Max Eduard Gottlieb Bartels (1871-1936) and his sons Dr Max Bartels, Jr. (1902-1943), Ernst Bartels (b. 1904), and Hans Bartels (1906-1997) Dutch plantation managers, naturalists and collectors in Java (subsp. Turnix sylvaticus).
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)