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==Taxonomy== [[File:Anastomus Zayn Al Din.jpg|thumb|left|1781 illustration by [[Sheikh Zainuddin]]]] The Asian openbill was described by the French polymath [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon]] in 1780 in his ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux'' from a specimen collected in [[Puducherry (union territory)|Pondichery]], India.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Buffon | first=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | year=1780 | title=Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux | volume=14 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | pages=147–149 | chapter=Le bec-ouvert | language=fr | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42337835 }}</ref> The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by [[François-Nicolas Martinet]] in the ''Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle'' which was produced under the supervision of [[Edme-Louis Daubenton]] to accompany Buffon's text.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Buffon | first1=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author1-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | last2=Martinet | first2=François-Nicolas | author2-link=François-Nicolas Martinet | last3=Daubenton | first3=Edme-Louis | author3-link=Edme-Louis Daubenton | last4=Daubenton | first4=Louis-Jean-Marie | author4-link=Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton | year=1765–1783 | chapter=Le bec ouvert de Pondichery | title=Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle | volume=10 | place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | at=Plate 932 | chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35223609 }}</ref> Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist [[Pieter Boddaert]] coined the [[binomial name]] ''Ardea oscitans'' in his catalogue of the ''Planches Enluminées''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1783 | title=Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés | place=Utrecht | page=55, Number 932 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822675 | language=fr }}</ref> The Asian openbill is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Anastomus]]'' that was erected by the French naturalist [[Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre|Pierre Bonnaterre]] in 1791.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Bonnaterre | first1=Pierre Joseph | author1-link=Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre | last2=Vieillot | first2=Louis Pierre | author2-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1823 | title=Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Ornithologie | volume=Part 1 | language=fr | location=Paris | publisher=Panckoucke | page=xciii | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51114668 }} Although the title page bears the date of 1823 the section (''livraison'') containing the description was published in 1791. See: {{ cite book | last1=Dickinson | first1=E.C. | author1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | last2=Overstreet | first2=L.K. | last3=Dowsett | first3=R.J. | last4=Bruce | first4=M.D. | year=2011 | title=Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers | location=Northampton, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-1-5 | page=78 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267763194 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, cormorants, darters | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/storks/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=16 July 2019 }}</ref> The genus name ''Anastomus'' is from the [[Ancient Greek]] αναστομοω ''anastomoō'' meaning "to furnish with a mouth" or "with mouth wide-opened". The specific epithet ''oscitans'' is the Latin word for "yawning".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n46 46], 286}}</ref>
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