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Struthio camelus
Linnaeus, 1758
- ostrich
(bird)
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Struthio (Genus)
..Struthio camelus (Species) - ostrich
....Struthio camelus australis (Subspecies)
....Struthio camelus camelus (Subspecies) - African ostrich
....Struthio camelus massaicus (Subspecies)
....Struthio camelus molybdophanes (Subspecies) - Somali ostrich
....Struthio camelus syriacus (Subspecies) - Arabian ostrich
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
C. Linnaeus, 1758
Original name, rank, combination & spelling
:
Linnaeus, C. 1758.
Syst. Nat.
(ed. 10)
1
: 155.
Attributes
Species-group name is a noun in apposition [ICZN, 1999: Arts. 11.9.1.2, 31.2.2]
Ref:
ICZN, 1999.
Int. Code Zool. Nomencl.
(ed. 4)
: Art. 11.9.1.2.
Types
Type of
:
Struthio
(Genus)
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
G.R. Gray, 1840
[
new
]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Struthio camelus camelus
Linnaeus, 1758
Ref:
B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993
: 1.
[implicit]
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
struisvogel
Ref:
C.M. Perrins (ed.), 1991 (1990)
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
ostrich
Ref:
E.C. Dickinson (ed.), 2003
: 34.
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