 The Latin name cucullatus ( " hooded " ) was first used by Juan Eusebio <unk> in 1635 as Cygnus cucullatus , in reference to Carolus Clusius 's 1605 depiction of a dodo . In his 18th @-@ century classic work Systema Naturae , Carl Linnaeus used cucullatus as the specific name , but combined it with the genus name <unk> ( ostrich ) . Mathurin Jacques Brisson coined the genus name Raphus ( referring to the <unk> ) in 1760 , resulting in the current name Raphus cucullatus . In 1766 , Linnaeus coined the new binomial Didus ineptus ( meaning " inept dodo " ) . This has become a synonym of the earlier name because of nomenclatural priority . 
