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Eunetta Bp 1856
Eunetta Bonaparte 1856.
Bonaparte CL. 1856. Excursion dans les divers musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique (suite et fin), et Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des Palmipèdes. C.-R. Séan. Hebd. Acad. Sci. Paris 43:643-652.; p. 650; [OD]
Originally included nominal species: Anas falcata "Pallas" = Georgi 1775, Anas formosa Georgi 1775, Anas bimaculata "Penn." = Keyserling & Blasius 1840.
Type fixation: subsequent designation...
Would anybody know on which account this name is used for the Falcated Duck? The AOU check-list, as far back as I can trace ([1931]), always made this a type fixation by monotypy, but this is obviously not correct. The Richmond index has three cards for this name:
If there is a way to disregard the last sentence, as if it did not constitute a valid type designation, it currently escapes me.
Eunetta Bonaparte 1856.
Bonaparte CL. 1856. Excursion dans les divers musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique (suite et fin), et Tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des Palmipèdes. C.-R. Séan. Hebd. Acad. Sci. Paris 43:643-652.; p. 650; [OD]
Originally included nominal species: Anas falcata "Pallas" = Georgi 1775, Anas formosa Georgi 1775, Anas bimaculata "Penn." = Keyserling & Blasius 1840.
Type fixation: subsequent designation...
Would anybody know on which account this name is used for the Falcated Duck? The AOU check-list, as far back as I can trace ([1931]), always made this a type fixation by monotypy, but this is obviously not correct. The Richmond index has three cards for this name:
- The [first one] indicates (correctly) that Bonaparte originally included falcata Pall., formosa Georgi, and bimaculata "Penn.", noting about falcata:
On p. 1025, he says this "n'est pas le type de mon Eunetta."
- The [second one] corrects the authorship of falcata to Georgi and that of bimaculata to Keyserling & Blasius, which are the accepted sources for these names, and notes:
subsequently restricted to A. formosa Georgi, by Bonaparte, op. cit., p. 1025.
- The [third one] intimates that the genotype is Eunetta falcata (Georgi) without explanation.
= "Anas falcata is not the type of my genus Eunetta : it is good to say it for those who pretend that the first species listed must be considered as such. Except the tail streamers, this nice Duck approaches Anas acuta much more than A. formosa, true type of the genus which is closer to the Teals." (My translation.)Anas falcata n'est pas le type de mon genre Eunetta : il est bon de le dire pour ceux qui prétendent que la première espèce énumérée doit être considérée comme telle. Sauf les filets de la queue, ce beau Canard se rapproche bien plus d'Anas acuta que de A. formosa, véritable type du genre tenant de plus prés aux Sarcelles.
If there is a way to disregard the last sentence, as if it did not constitute a valid type designation, it currently escapes me.
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