Tupinambis
Translingual
Etymology
Coined by French zoologist François Marie Daudin in 1802, from Latin Tupinambis, from Old Tupi tupinambá.[1] The taxon stems from a misinterpretation of Marcgrave's description in Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, where he writes TEivgvacv & Temapara Tupinambis (literally, “Teîugûasu and temapara for the Tupibambá”),[2] stating that the Tupinambá called the species by these names, but Daudin interpreted it as the name of the species itself.[3][4]
Proper noun
Tupinambis m
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Diapsida – subclass; Lepidosauromorpha – infraclass; Lepidosauria – superorder; Squamata – order; Lacertoidea – suborder; Teiidae – family; Tupinambinae – subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Tupinambis teguixin (common golden tegu) – type species; Tupinambis cryptus, Tupinambis cuzcoensis, Tupinambis longilineus, Tupinambis matipu, Tupinambis palustris, Tupinambis quadrilineatus, Tupinambis zuliensis – other species
References
- Tupinambis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tupinambis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Tupinambis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- ^ Tupinambis protologue at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
- ^ Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648), Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VII, chapter XII (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 237
- ^ Frank Evers Beddard (1905), chapter VIII, in Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals, Archibald Constable, London: Archibald Constable, The Teguexin, page 240
- ^ Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, Renato Nicolai, editors (24 April 2020), “Sobre o nome científico do lagarto teiú”, in Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú[1] (in Portuguese), archived from the original on 2 August 2020