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Biblis  R. P. Lesson, 1837
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1278186

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Common Name(s):    
  Valid Name: Riparia T. Forster, 1817
 
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: invalid - homonym and junior synonym   
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: unknown   
  Latest Record Review: 2026   
       

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  Source: The Key to Scientific Names, database (version 2025)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: The Key to Scientific Names (J. A. Jobling, editor) in Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman et al. editors), Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca   
  Reference for: Biblis   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Gray, George Robert  
  Publication Date: 1841   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: A List of the Genera of Birds, with their Synonyma, and an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus   
  Page(s): xii + 115   
  Publisher: Richard and John E. Taylor   
  Publication Place: London, UK   
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  Notes: Available online via Biodiversity Heritage Library at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14050220   
  Reference for: Biblis   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lesson, René Primevère  
  Publication Date: 1837   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Compléments de Buffon, vol. 8   
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  Publisher: P. Pourrat Frères   
  Publication Place: Paris, France   
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  Notes: Second edition (1838) is available online via Biodiversity Heritage Library at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16020563. Pagination of the first edition volumes is not known   
  Reference for: original description   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lesson, René Primevère  
  Publication Date: 1840   
  Article/Chapter Title: A List of the genera of birds, etc. Catalogue des genere admis par les ornithologistes dans la classe des oiseaux, par George Robert Gray   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne, May 1840   
  Page(s): 144-145   
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  Notes: A review of Gray's 'List of Genera' (1840). Available online via Biodiversity Heritage Library at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13714148   
  Reference for: Biblis   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Mayr, Ernst, and James C. Greenway, Jr., eds.  
  Publication Date: 1960   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Check-list of Birds of the World, vol. 9   
  Page(s): xii + 506   
  Publisher: Museum of Comparative Zoology   
  Publication Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA   
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  Reference for: Biblis   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Taxon author date based upon Lesson (1840, p. 145), where in his review of Gray's 'List of Genera' Lesson writes 'M. Gray est fait avec beaucoup de savoir et d'équité, nous le prions de vérifier quelques genres nouveaux et entre autres: .... Moi-meme j'ai divisé les Hirondelles en 1837 (Compl., t. VIII, pag. 489) en vrais Martinets, Apus; en Palestres, Palestre; Pallène, Pallene; Hirondelle, Hirundo; Biblis, Biblis; Hersé, Herse, et Cecropis, Boié'  
    Type by subsequent designation, Hirundo riparia, Linnaeus, 1758. See Gray (1841, p. 11)  
    Bird genus name Biblis R. P. Lesson, 1837 is a junior primary homonym of butterfly genus name Biblis [Fabricius], 1807 (TSN 777594)  
 

 

    

 
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