Philip Lutley Sclater FRS FRGS FZS FLS (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist...
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(/lɪˈmjʊəriə/), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated...
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Philip Roller (born 1994), Thai footballer Philip Roth (1933–2018), American novelist Philip Sclater (1829–1913), English lawyer and zoologist Philip...
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Okapi (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
johnstoni was first described as Equus johnstoni by English zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater in 1901. The generic name Okapia derives either from the Mbuba name...
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was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1904 and named after Philip Sclater. It is an arboreal and diurnal primate that lives in the forests of...
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Green parakeet (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
unsettled. The IOC assigns it two subspecies, the nominate P. h. holochlorus (Sclater, PL, 1859) and P. h. brewsteri (Nelson, 1928). The American Ornithological...
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Unfortunately, he chose a specific epithet that had been used in 1852 by Philip Sclater for Arremon mysticalis, now considered to be a junior synonym of Tanagra...
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Zoogeography (section Sclater (1857))
(1871) proposed 6, Newton (1893) proposed 6, Gadow (1893) proposed 4. Philip Sclater (1858) and Alfred Wallace (1876) identified the main zoogeographic regions...
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the English ornithologist Philip Sclater (1829–1913). A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that Sclater's crowned pigeon was most closely...
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Gnateater (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
The gnateaters are a bird family, Conopophagidae, consisting of twelve small suboscine passerine species in two genera, which occur in South and Central...
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James's flamingo (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
November 2021. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14. Sclater, PL (1886). List of a Collection of Birds from the Province of Tarapaca...
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Ashy-headed goose (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Genus: Chloephaga Species: C. poliocephala Binomial name Chloephaga poliocephala P.L. Sclater, 1857...
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Aztec thrush (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
montane forests. The IUCN Red List denotes it as a least-concern species. Philip Sclater described the species as Turdus pinicola from southern Mexico in 1859...
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Lord Howe woodhen (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Hypotaenidia Species: H. sylvestris Binomial name Hypotaenidia sylvestris (Sclater, PL, 1870) Synonyms Ocydromus sylvestris (protonym) Gallirallus sylvestris...
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Black imperial pigeon (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
the pigeon family, Columbidae. First described by English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1878, it is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago, where it mainly...
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Blue-eyed cockatoo (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Genus: Cacatua Subgenus: Cacatua Species: C. ophthalmica Binomial name Cacatua ophthalmica Sclater, PL, 1864 The Distribution of the blue-eyed cockatoo...
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zoologist Philip Sclater for coining the name but Sclater's book on American birds was not published until 1862. Some taxonomists credit Sclater for erecting...
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Hirola (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
"IUCN - A sanctuary for Hirola". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Sclater, P. L. (1889) Description of Hunter's antelope. Proceedings of the Zoological...
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history of Tamil people as a community. In 1864, the English zoologist Philip Sclater hypothesized the existence of a submerged land connection between India...
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Hawaiian duck (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Genus: Anas Species: A. wyvilliana Binomial name Anas wyvilliana Sclater, PL, 1878...
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Grey-rumped swift (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
& Taczanowski, 1884 C. c. sclateri Pelzeln, 1868 C. c. cinereiventris Sclater, P.L., 1862 The grey-rumped swift, pale-rumped swift (C. egregia), band-rumped...
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Short-eared dog (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Robert S.R. Williams (2004). "The short eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) (Sclater, 1883)". In Claudio Sillero-Zubiri; Michael Hoffmann; David W. Macdonald...
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Casuariiformes (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
least the additional consideration of plate tectonics. Casuariiformes (Sclater, 1880) Forbes 1884 ?†Diogenornis - Alvarenga, 1983 (Paleocene of Brazil)...
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Raggiana bird-of-paradise (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Paradisaea Species: P. raggiana Binomial name Paradisaea raggiana P.L. Sclater, 1873 Paradisaea raggiana Paradisaea apoda Synonyms Gerrus paradisaea...
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Club-winged manakin (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22701122A130270942.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021. Sclater, P. L. (1860). "List of Birds collected by Mr. Fraser in Ecuador, at Nanegal...
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Ibis. In the preface of the first issue of The Ibis the editor, Philip Lutley Sclater, recalls that in a meeting in the autumn of 1857 a group of ornithologists...
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Northern pygmy owl (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
splitting. There are four recognized subspecies: G. c. californicum (PL Sclater, 1857) – Pacific pygmy owl – central British Columbia to southwestern United...
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Western wood pewee (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Passeriformes Family: Tyrannidae Genus: Contopus Species: C. sordidulus Binomial name Contopus sordidulus Sclater, PL, 1859 Breeding Migration Nonbreeding...
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Anna Maria, daughter of William Bowyer. His brother was the naturalist Philip Sclater. He was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford, and was...
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Meller's duck (category Taxa named by Philip Sclater)
Family: Anatidae Genus: Anas Species: A. melleri Binomial name Anas melleri Sclater, PL, 1865 Distribution of the Meller's duck Synonyms Anas platyrhynchos...
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