 He used the English name "Cape partridge", but did not introduce a Latin name.Six years later in 1789, when the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin updated Carl Linnaeus's "Systema Naturae", he included a terse description of the Cape spurfowl, coined the binomial name "Tetrao capensis" and cited Latham's work.The specific epithet "capensis" is the Latin for the Cape of Good Hope.