Melaenornis Annamarulae Bird

Melaenornis Annamarulae Bird

Melaenornis Annamarulae Bird

English Name:  Nimba Flycatcher
Latin Name:  Melaenornis annamarulae
Protonym:  Melaenornis annamarulae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 90 p.146
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Melaenornis
Taxonomy Code:  nimfly1
Type Locality:  Grassfield, Mt. Nimba, Liberia, lat. 7° 30'' N., long. 8° 35'' W.; altitude ca. 550 meters.
Author:  Forbes-Watson
Publish Year:  1970
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "MELAENORNIS, n.  Melasoma a, Swains.  M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n.  Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29.   ...   Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).   
Var. MelaehornisMeloenornis.   
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.

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Anna Marula Forbes-Watson née Kofsky (1941-2006) wife of British zoologist Alexander D. Forbes-Watson (Melaenornis).