Amazilia Brevirostris Bird
Amazilia Brevirostris Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Ornismya brevirostris Hist.Nat.Ois.-Mouches[Lesson] p.xxxv pl.77
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Amazilia
Taxonomy Code: whceme1
Type Locality: Guiana, error = Rio de Janeiro.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1830
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
AMAZILIA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Cinnamon Hummingbird A. rutila) Specific name Ornismya amazilia Lesson, 1828 (see amazilia); "Race: Les AMAZILIS, amazilia, Less. — (pl. 73.) L'ois. mouche lumachelle: Ornysmia lumachella, Less., rev. zool. p. 315. Hab.: Bahia. — (pl. 74.) L'ois. mouche beau: Ornysmia eximia, Delattre, écho, 1813, Hab.: Guatimala. — (pl. 75) L'ois. mouche canelle: Ornysmia cinnamomea, Less., rev. zoolog., 1842, p. 175; Orn. rufula, Delattre, écho, 1843. Hab: Acapulco, Guatimala. (pl. 76) L'ois. m. Clarisse: Ornysmia clarisse, Longuemare, rev. zool., 1841, p. 306. H. Santa-Fe-de-Bogota." (Lesson 1843); "Amazilia Lesson, Écho du Monde Sav., 1843, col. 757. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya cinnamomea Lesson = Ornismia rutila DeLattre. (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philas., 1918, p. 256.)" (Peters 1945, V, p. 61). I have elsewhere suggested that the substantive name Amazili be given to the hummingbirds of this genus.
Var. Amazillia.
Synon. Agyrtria, Albanora, Amazilicus, Amazilina, Amazilius, Amizilis, Arena, Arenella, Ariadne, Ariana, Chionogaster, Chionomesa, Cyanomyia, Elliotia, Eranna, Eratina, Eratopis, Erythronota, Eucephala, Hemistilbon, Hemithylaca, Hypochionis, Leucodora, Lisoria, Myletes, Polyerata, Pyrrhophaena, Saucerottia, Uranomitra.
amazilia
Amazili, an Inca heroine in Jean Marmontel’s novel (1777) “Les Incas, ou la destruction de l’Empire du Pérou” (Amazilia (“le nom de cette espèce rappellera à l’imagination de nos lecteurs une des héroïnes célébrées par Marmontel dans ses Incas, et en même temps les lieux où elle vit” (Lesson 1830), subsp. Columbina minuta).
brevirostre / brevirostris
Mod. L. brevirostris having a short beak < L. brevis short; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
SUBSPECIES
White-chested Emerald (chionopectus)
Latin Name: Amazilia brevirostris chionopectus
chionopectus
Gr. χιων khiōn, χιονος khionos snow; L. pectus, pectoris breast.
White-chested Emerald (brevirostris)
Latin Name: Amazilia brevirostris brevirostris
brevirostre / brevirostris
Mod. L. brevirostris having a short beak < L. brevis short; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
White-chested Emerald (orienticola)
Latin Name: Amazilia brevirostris orienticola
orienticola
L. oriens, orientis east; -cola dweller < colere to inhabit.
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)