Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 2013, Nr 11, pages 63-86

Names of Genera in the Ukrainian Nomenclature of Birds of the World. Non-Passeriformes. Part 1.

Fesenko, H. V.

Summary:
The necessity to form the composition of the national names of birds’ genera of the world fauna as a basis for creating the principle of typification of the national nomenclature of over genus level taxa is justified. Four kinds of genus names are now standard in home nomenclature of the birds. All they are presented in proposed list of national genus names. Less than 200 genera of non-home fauna are named in Ukrainian in previous scientific works. That is a few part of world bird classifications. In this article the proposed list includes 460 genera where nearly two-thirds are named in Ukrainian for the first time. The genera composition is the same that is in the classification presented in publication “Handbook of the Birds of the World”. The list covers only part of Non-Passeriformes orders, namely Struthioniformes, Tinamiformes, Sphenisciformes, Gaviiformes, Podicipediformes, Procellariiformes, Pelecaniformes, Ciconiiformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Anseriformes, Falconiformes, Galliformes, Opisthocomiformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes. As national definitions of genera a number of neologisms are proposed and borrowings from several foreign languages are derived. In an indirect way the national names for more than 170 species of birds that have not yet been named in national scientific sources are represented.

Keywords:
Ukrainian nomenclature of birds, names of genera, avifauna of the World.

Address:
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of NAS of Ukraine, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi St. 15, Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine; e-mail: h.fesenko@gmail.com

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