Alcide d'Orbigny | Orbigny, Indre-et-Loire | Orbigny-au-Val | Orbigny-au-Mont |
The specific name was bestowed in 1834 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny who first described the bird to Europeans, from a specimen from the lower Río Negro south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It was first described by Paul Gervais and Alcide d'Orbigny in 1844 (the species epithet blainvillei commemorates the French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville).
Orbigny-au-Mont, a commune in the Haute-Marne department in France
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Orbigny, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in France
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Orbigny-au-Val, a commune in the Haute-Marne department in France
The species was first published by D’Orbigny (1842) under the name Rissoina sagra in the caption of the plate and thereby made available under the provisions of article 12.2.7 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; the complete description was published years later (1846) under the name Rissoina sagraiana and the publication in parts was completed only in 1853.
Victoria cruziana was discovered in Bolivia on one of many expeditions through the country by Alcide d'Orbigny whose presence was sponsored by Andrés de Santa Cruz.