Some extinct, very extinct, (sub)fossil species and their eponyms (1 Viewer)

(Prime Minister) Lini’s Megapode

walterlinii as in
• the extinct, subfossil species Lini’s Megapode Mwalau walterlinii WORTHY, HAWKINS, BEDFORD & SPRIGGS 2015 (here, p.211-217) also covering Mwalau n. gen:

ETYMOLOGY: “mwalau” is the linguistic reconstruction for the name of megapode-like birds during the Lapita era, when this bird was first encountered and when it became extinct. It comes from the Proto-North Central Vanuatu language, a descendant subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages, and the ancestral language for the whole of North and central Vanuatu. Derived from mlau, the name for the incubator bird (megapode) in Efate. Pronounced “moi” (as in French) – lau (as in loud). This noun is treated as the nomi- native singular and the gender is masculine. (on p.211)

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ETYMOLOGY: Named after Vanuatu’s first Prime Minister, the late Father Walter Lini (1942–1999), with permission of the family, to celebrate the independence of Vanuatu and for his crucial support of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and his role in establishing a respect for traditional culture in Vanuatu. (on p.214)

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Craves’s Giant Barn Owl

• the extinct (sub-fossil) species Craves’s Giant Barn Owl Tyto cravesae SUÁREZ & OLSON 2015 (here) as "Tyto cravesae" (not "cravesi", as have been used, in some lists):

Etymology: After Julie Craves, of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, for her dedication and her boundless appreciation of Cuban friends and birds. [on p.547]

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= Julie A. Craves (fl. 2017), US ornithologist (and entomologist), Supervisor of Avian Research, of the Rouge River Bird Observatory, Environmental Interpretive Cente, University of Michigan-Dearborn, (here, here and here), in Wayne County, Michigan, USA, as well a dedicated "Coffee- and Conservationist" (here), ... and so on.

Also see the Paper Introducing Craves’s Giant Barn Owl, a new species named after Julie Craves, by Chuch Hagner, interviewing one of the Authors (William Suárez) and Julie Craves herself, published in Birdwatching (10/19/2015), here.

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Wiman´s Ostrich

wimani as in:
• the fossil species Struthio wimani LOWE (& BATE) 1931:

... in recognition of the great work already done by Professor C. WIMAN in furthering the study of vertebrate palæontology of China.

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= Professor Carl Wiman (1867–1944), Swedish Palaeontologist, whose full name was: Carl Johan Josef Ernst Wiman (here and here).

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Andersson's Ostrich

anderssoni as in:
• the fossil bird (egg?) "Struthio anderssoni" LOWE & BATE 1931 (in text):

In a paper entitled "Essays on the Cenozoic of Northern China" Dr. J. G. ANDERSSON (1923 — p. 71) records ...

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... which was published in; "Mem. Geol. Surv. China, Ser. A. No.3" [i.e.: Memoirs of the geological survey of China, 1923]

= Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960), Swedish palaeontologist, archaeologist and geologist [in Sweden, at the time well-known, a k a simply "Kina-Gunnar" ("China-Gunnar")], whose full name was Johan Gunnar Andersson (here alt. here).

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Calalp said:

wimani as in:
• the fossil species Struthio wimani LOWE (& BATE) 1931:

= Professor Carl Wiman (1867–1944), Swedish Palaeontologist, whose full name was: Carl Johan Josef Ernst Wiman (here and here).

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More on Wiman: http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=348041&highlight=wiman

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Fred