Buphagus erythrorhynchus (1 Viewer)

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8669

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• Sep 19, 2016

• #1

I found this on Zoonomen:

Buphagus erythrorynchus Nomenclature
Conventionally spelled erythrorhynchyus. Most authors evidently following the Cat.B.Br.Mus. or Peters CL.
The Richmond Index indicates that the original spelling was erythroryncha.
I have not been able to find an example of the original 1814 edition, but the spelling is certainly erythroryncha in the 1816 American edition.

Has anyone seen the OD of 1814?

 

l_raty

laurent raty

• Sep 19, 2016

• #2

https://books.google.com/books?id=QzGKBkUTLrkC&pg=PR59

 

8

8669

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• Sep 19, 2016

• #3

Thanks Laurent.

It looks as if the spelling erythorhynchus is wrong then.

 

Paul Clapham

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• Sep 19, 2016

• #4

Also here, I think: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47589038

 

mb1848

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• Sep 19, 2016

• #5

"It looks as if the spelling erythorhynchus is wrong then." Why? I think erythroryncha was used by Salt as an adjective. Footnote* ...they had all invariably had a red bill. He also states he follows Latham in naming it. Latham only called the bird red bill'd Tanager. 31.2. Agreement in gender. A species-group name, if it is or ends in a Latin or latinized adjective or participle in the nominative singular, must agree in gender with the generic name with which it is at any time combined. Salt used an -a ending when used with Tanagra and now we use -us.

 

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Nutcracker

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• Sep 19, 2016

• #6

mb1848 said:

"It looks as if the spelling erythorhynchus is wrong then." Why? I think erythroryncha was used by Salt as an adjective. ....

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It's the spare 'h', erythorhynch- vs erythrorynch-, that matters, not any gender agreement

 

mb1848

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• Sep 20, 2016

• #7

Thanks Nutcracker!