Macronyx Ameliae Bird
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Macronyx Ameliae Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Macronyx ameliae Rev.Zool. 8 p.452
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Motacillidae / Macronyx
Taxonomy Code: rotlon1
Type Locality: Durban.
Author: de Tarragon
Publish Year: 1849
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MACRONYX
(Motacillidae; Ϯ Orange-throated Longclaw M. capensis) Gr. μακρος makros long, great; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos claw; "MACRONYX. ... Bill moderate, straight, the culmen slightly arched. Nostrils naked, large, the aperture oblong. Wings rather short, the four first quills equal and longest. Tail slightly rounded. Feet long; the lateral scales of the tarsi entire; the nail of the hind toe very long and curved. Type. L'Alouette Sentinelle. Levaill., Ois. pl. 195." (Swainson 1827); "Macronyx Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 344. Type, by original designation, "L'Alouette sentinelle" of Levaillant = Alauda capensis Linnaeus" (White in Peters 1960, IX, 142).
macronyx
Gr. μακρος makros long, great; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos claw, nail.
ameliae
● Amélie Louise Virginie Goislard de Villebresme Marquise de Tarragon (1788-1865) mother of French explorer and collector Louis-Charles-Léonce de Tarragon Marquis de Tarragon (d. 1897) (cf. Louise-Amélie de Turenne Marquise de Tarragon (fl. 1842) wife of Léonce de Tarragon (Beolens et al. 2014)) (Macronyx).
● See: amaliae (syn. Columba livia).
SUBSPECIES
Rosy-throated Longclaw (wintoni)
Latin Name: Macronyx ameliae wintoni
wintoni
Maj.-Gen. Sir Francis Walter de Winton (1835-1901) British Army, Military Attaché at Constantinople 1878-1883, Administrator-Gen. of Congo 1885-1886, Commissioner to Swaziland 1889 (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Macronyx ameliae).
Rosy-throated Longclaw (altanus)
Latin Name: Macronyx ameliae altanus
altanus
L. altanus south-southwest wind, sea-wind.
Rosy-throated Longclaw (ameliae)
Latin Name: Macronyx ameliae ameliae
ameliae
● Amélie Louise Virginie Goislard de Villebresme Marquise de Tarragon (1788-1865) mother of French explorer and collector Louis-Charles-Léonce de Tarragon Marquis de Tarragon (d. 1897) (cf. Louise-Amélie de Turenne Marquise de Tarragon (fl. 1842) wife of Léonce de Tarragon (Beolens et al. 2014)) (Macronyx).
● See: amaliae (syn. Columba livia).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
