the quinarian system. Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow on 1785 as the first son of Capt. Nicholas Aylward Vigors who served in 29th (Worcestershire)...
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Bird-of-paradise (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
Paradisaeidae has traditionally been attributed to the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Vigors was constrained by the quinarian system and his use of Paradisaeae...
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Hummingbird (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
The family Trochilidae was introduced in 1825 by Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors with Trochilus as the type genus. In traditional taxonomy, hummingbirds...
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Great eared nightjar (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors based on a sample collected in the neighbourhood of Manila in the Philippines. Vigors coined the binomial...
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Nene (bird) (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
name for the Hawaiian Islands. The holotype specimen of Anser sandvicensis Vigors (List Anim. Garden Zool. Soc., ed.3, June 1833, p.4.) is held in the vertebrate...
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Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), Irish zoologist and politician Tim Vigors (1922–2003), British fighter ace, founder of the Coolmore Stud Vigor (name)...
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Double-barred finch (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22719682A94639041.en. Retrieved 6 March 2022. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection...
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Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Peel, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors along with various other nobility, clergy, and naturalists. Raffles...
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Asian golden cat (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
golden cat. Felis temmincki was the scientific name used in 1827 by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield who described a reddish brown cat skin from...
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Australian raven (category Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors)
pupil, this lasting until they are roughly 2.5 to 3 years of age. Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield described the Australian raven in 1827, its...
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