Meleagris gallopavo
Meleagris gallopavo (binomen a Carolo Linnaeo anno 1758 statutum) est una ex duabus magnarum avium species generis Meleagridum. Quae species, in silvis Americae Septentrionalis endemica, in Mexico abhinc 1 500 annis (vel pluribus) domesticata est. Nomen Latinum Indicus pavo semel reperitur.

Altera species, Meleagris ocellata, in silvis paeninsulae Iucataniae habitat.

Proprietates anatomicae gallopavonis
Gallopavo mas habet carunculam dependentem de rostro.  Membrum, nomine Anglico "Snood," adhibetur cum gallopavo petat coniugem.  Animal aliam carunculam in collo habet, nomine Anglico, "Wattle" et "barbam" crescentem ex pectore.  Munus barbae incertus est.

De gastronomia 

Inter fercula gallopavonina celebriora sunt illa quae in Civitatibus Foederatis ad epulum Festi Gratias Agendi, in Britannia ad Christi Nativitatem inferuntur.

Notae

Bibliographia 
 Fontes antiquiores
 ante 1542 : Codex Mendoza (liber pictus, c. 1534/1542) ff. 61r, 68r; cf. Frances Berdan, Patricia Anawalt, The Essential Codex Mendoza (Berkeleiae, 1997) pp. 169, 218
 1599-1603 : Ulysses Aldrovandus, Ornithologiae libri XII (Bononiae 1599-1603) textus vol. 1 vol. 2 vol. 3 (citatio verificanda)

 Eruditio recentior
 Sophie D. Coe, America's First Cuisines (Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 1994) pp. 96, 124-125
 David Gentilcore, Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: diet, medicine and society, 1450–1800 (Londinii: Bloomsbury, 2016) pp. 139-144
 Heather A. Lapham, Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas, "Turkey husbandry and use in Oaxaca, Mexico: A contextual study of turkey remains and SEM analysis of eggshell from the Mitla Fortress" in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports vol. 10 (2016) pp. 534-546 Epitome
 Aurelie Manin et al., "Diversity of management strategies in Mesoamerican turkeys: archaeological, isotopic and genetic evidence" in Royal Society Open Science (17 Ianuarii 2018)

Nexus externi 

 "Are bones discovered under an Exeter street from the first turkey dinner in England?" (19 Decembris 2017) apud Phys.org

Species animalium
Meleagris
Aves Americae Septentrionalis
Taxa Linnaei
Taxa 1758