l_raty
laurent raty
Currently the Key has:
Picus boiei Wagler 1827 [OD], syn. Phloecatses leucopogon: explicit dedication to Heinrich Boie ("[...] in honorem [...] Henrici Boiei [...]").
Picus boie Temminck 1829 [OD], this will presumably be the "?Celeus artefact": explicit dedication to the memory of a deceased Boié, hence (in 1829) necessarily Heinrich Boie.
Nectarinia (Myzolema) boiei Müller 1843 [OD], = Myzomela boiei: no explicit dedication, but "H. Boie" and "Heinr. Boie" appear a couple of times in the work, and on p. 234 he is said to have been a travel companion ("reisgenoot") of the author, so presumably indeed to Heinrich Boie as well.
Isn't the "syn. Phalaenopsis brasiliana" a mere misinterpretation of "Glaucidium Boiei" in Wied 1830 [here] ? (There is a card for this "name" in the Richmond Index.) Just like "Athene Boiei" [here], "Myioturdus Boiei" [here], or "Myiagrus Boiei" [here] in the same volume, I believe that this was not intended to be a binomen, but merely a genus-goup name (Glaucidium) with its author (Friedrich Boie) cited, old-style, in latinized form. The corresponding vernacular given by Wied ("Caburé's.") is plural; the description of the taxon is entirely in the plural as well, and largely limited to general structural and behavioural characteristics (as expectable for a generic diagnosis); the descriptions of the species of this group are written in the singular and start on the next page (with: "1. St. ferruginea. Das rostrothe Caburé.").
Do we really have a bird dedicated to Friedrich Boie alone ?
(Lestris boji Brehm 1824 [OD] (syn. Stercorarius parasiticus) was explicitly dedicated to both brothers ("beide Brüder Boje"), as noted in the Key. [And should thus in principle have been bojorum.])
boie / boiei
● Heinrich Boie (1784-1827) German zoologist, collector in Java 1825-1827 (Myzomela).
● Friedrich Boie (1789-1870) German lawyer, zoologist (?Celeus artefact, syn. Phalaenopsis brasiliana, syn. Phloeoceastes leucopogon).
Picus boiei Wagler 1827 [OD], syn. Phloecatses leucopogon: explicit dedication to Heinrich Boie ("[...] in honorem [...] Henrici Boiei [...]").
Picus boie Temminck 1829 [OD], this will presumably be the "?Celeus artefact": explicit dedication to the memory of a deceased Boié, hence (in 1829) necessarily Heinrich Boie.
Nectarinia (Myzolema) boiei Müller 1843 [OD], = Myzomela boiei: no explicit dedication, but "H. Boie" and "Heinr. Boie" appear a couple of times in the work, and on p. 234 he is said to have been a travel companion ("reisgenoot") of the author, so presumably indeed to Heinrich Boie as well.
Isn't the "syn. Phalaenopsis brasiliana" a mere misinterpretation of "Glaucidium Boiei" in Wied 1830 [here] ? (There is a card for this "name" in the Richmond Index.) Just like "Athene Boiei" [here], "Myioturdus Boiei" [here], or "Myiagrus Boiei" [here] in the same volume, I believe that this was not intended to be a binomen, but merely a genus-goup name (Glaucidium) with its author (Friedrich Boie) cited, old-style, in latinized form. The corresponding vernacular given by Wied ("Caburé's.") is plural; the description of the taxon is entirely in the plural as well, and largely limited to general structural and behavioural characteristics (as expectable for a generic diagnosis); the descriptions of the species of this group are written in the singular and start on the next page (with: "1. St. ferruginea. Das rostrothe Caburé.").
Do we really have a bird dedicated to Friedrich Boie alone ?
(Lestris boji Brehm 1824 [OD] (syn. Stercorarius parasiticus) was explicitly dedicated to both brothers ("beide Brüder Boje"), as noted in the Key. [And should thus in principle have been bojorum.])
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