An alternative or variant spelling of ailuropoda, referring to the genus of giant pandas.
A Latin variant form of the Greek-derived 'ailuropoda,' used in some older scientific literature. Different Latin endings were sometimes applied to the same Greek root before standardized nomenclature conventions were established.
This is a perfect example of scientific nomenclature 'growing pains'—scientists in different countries sometimes published variations of the same genus name before the rules of taxonomy became standardized internationally in the 1960s.
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