Myzomela Blasii Bird

English Name:  Seram Myzomela
Latin Name:  Myzomela blasii
Protonym:  Stigmatops blasii Orn.Papu.Moluc. 3 p.543,566
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Myzomela
Taxonomy Code:  sermyz1
Type Locality:  Ambon Island.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1882
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYZOMELA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Scarlet Myzomela M. sanguinolenta) Gr. μυζαω muzaō  to suck; μελι meli  honey; "This section forms an interesting subdivision of the present group [Meliphagidae], as marking the passage to the Cinnyridæ ...  this type of form may be generically characterized as follows, the Mel. cardinalis being the normal species.  Genus. MYZOMELA.  Rostrum breve, gracile; culmine arcuato, ad basin subcultrato; naribus longitudinalibus, linearibus, perangustis, membrana supra tectis, rostri tertiam partem longitudine æquantibus.  Lingua, alæ, pedesque iidem fere ut in Meliphagis veris.  Cauda subbrevis, æqualis" (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myzomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 318 [=316]. Type, by original designation, Meliphaga cardinalis Vigors and Horsfield = Certhia sanguinolenta Latham." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 350).
Var. Mysomela.
Synon. Cosmeteira, Melomyza.    

blasii
● Prof. Dr Wilhelm August Heinrich Blasius (1845-1912) German ornithologist, Director of Brunswick Mus. 1870 (subsp. Hypothymis puella, subsp. Lonchura punctulata, Myzomela).
● Prof. Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809-1870) German zoologist, Director of Brunswick Mus. 1859 (syn. Sterna hirundo).