Atthis Ellioti Bird
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Atthis Ellioti Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Atthis ellioti Proc.U.S.Natl.Mus. 1 p.8,9,fig.
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Atthis
Taxonomy Code: withum1
Type Locality: Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala.
Author: Ridgway
Publish Year: 1878
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ATTHIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Bumblebee Hummingbird A. heloisa) Atthis (fl. 600BC) a beautiful young woman of Lesbos and favourite of the poetess Sappho; "*Trochilus ... *δ. Atthis Heloisa (Tr. — DELATTRE 1839.) RCHB. — Mexico. * —— Costae (Tr. — BOURC. 1839.) RCHB. — California. * —— Anna (Orn. — LESS. 1829.) RCHB. — California." (Reichenbach 1854); "Trochilus δ Atthis Reichenbach, Journ. f. Orn., 1, 1854, Beil. zu Extrah., p. 12. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya heloisa Lesson and DeLattre. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 141.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 137).
atthis
Gr. myth. Atthis, a handsome, richly-dressed Indian youth and son of Limniace, nymph of the Ganges; "50. GRACULA. ... Atthis. 7. G. viridi-cærulea, abdomine ferrugineo, pedibus sanguineis. Corvus (ægyptius) viridi maculatus, dorso medio cæruleo. Hasselq. iter. 140. n. 20. Habitat in Ægypto." (Linnaeus 1758) (Alcedo).
ellioti
● Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) US ornithologist, founding member of AOU (subsp. Amazilia violiceps, syn. Anthracothorax aurulentus, Atthis, subsp. Galerida theklae (ex Galerida pallida Elliot), syn. Guttera pucherani, syn. Meleagris gallopavo intermedia, syn. Porphyrio melanotus samoensis, ‡Pseudastrapia, syn. Pterocles senegallus, Syrmaticus, Tanysiptera).
● Mt. Elliot, northern Queensland, Australia (syn. Philemon corniculatus).
SUBSPECIES
Wine-throated Hummingbird (ellioti)
Latin Name: Atthis ellioti ellioti
ellioti
● Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835-1915) US ornithologist, founding member of AOU (subsp. Amazilia violiceps, syn. Anthracothorax aurulentus, Atthis, subsp. Galerida theklae (ex Galerida pallida Elliot), syn. Guttera pucherani, syn. Meleagris gallopavo intermedia, syn. Porphyrio melanotus samoensis, ‡Pseudastrapia, syn. Pterocles senegallus, Syrmaticus, Tanysiptera).
● Mt. Elliot, northern Queensland, Australia (syn. Philemon corniculatus).
Wine-throated Hummingbird (selasphoroides)
Latin Name: Atthis ellioti selasphoroides
selasphoroides
Genus Selasphorus Swainson, 1832, hummingbird; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling (subsp. Atthis ellioti).
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)
