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Red-faced Lovebird
The red-headed lovebird (''Agapornis pullarius'') also known as the red-faced lovebird is a member of the genus ''Agapornis'', a group commonly known as lovebirds. Like other lovebirds it is native to Africa. Taxonomy The red-headed lovebird was Species description, formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus ''Psittacus'' and coined the binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Psittacus pullarius''. The type locality (biology), type locality is Ghana. The red-headed lovebird is now one of nine species placed in the genus ''Agapornis'' that was introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek αγάπη ''agape'' meaning "love" and όρνις ''ornis'' meaning "bird". The specific epithet ''pullarius'' is from Latin and means "of young birds" (''pullus'' means "chick"). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
