Odontophorus Erythrops Bird

English Name:  Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail
Latin Name:  Odontophorus erythrops
Protonym:  Odontophorus erythrops Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(27)1 p.99
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Odontophoridae / Odontophorus
Taxonomy Code:  rfwqua1
Type Locality:  Pallatanga, Ecuador.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ODONTOPHORUS
(Odontophoridae; Ϯ Marbled Wood Quail O. gujanensis) Gr. οδοντοφορος odontophoros  bearing teeth  < οδους odous, οδοντος odontos  tooth; φερω pherō  to carry; "188. TOCRO, Odontophorus.  Tetrao, Linn. Gm.  Perdix, Lath.  Bec nu à la base, convexe en dessus, très-comprimé, crochu vers le bout; mandibule inférieure bidentée près la pointe. — Orbites et lorum nus. — Queue arrondie. — Rectrices 12.    Esp. Tocro, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Odontophorus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 51. Type, by monotypy, "Tocro," Buffon = Tetrao gujanensis Gmelin." (Peters 1934, II, 51).
Var. Odonthophorus, Dentophorus (L. dens, dentis  tooth).
Synon. Strophiortyx.

erythrops
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  eye, face, countenance.

Erythrops
(Sylviidae; syn. Chrysomma † Yellow-eyed Babbler C. sinense hypoleucum) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos eye; "2. PYCTORHIS.   Erythrops, Hodgs. MSS.   Pyctoris, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 24.   Chrysomma, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 602 (1845) . . . Type. P. sinensis" (Sharpe 1883); "Erythrops "Hodgs. MSS." = Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, p. 510. In synonymy with Pyctoris Hodgson, i.e. Blyth. Not Erythrops Rafinesque, 1820, Pisces, nor Erythrops Sars, 1869, Crustacea." (Deignan in Peters, 1964, X, p. 327).

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail (parambae)
Latin Name: Odontophorus erythrops parambae
parambae / parambana / parambanus
Paramba, Imbabura/Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
● Hacienda Paramba, Imbabura, Ecuador (subsp. Myiopagis caniceps).

Rufous-fronted Wood-Quail (erythrops)
Latin Name: Odontophorus erythrops erythrops
erythrops
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  eye, face, countenance.