Heterocercus Flavivertex Bird
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Heterocercus Flavivertex Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Heterocercus flavivertex Orn.Brasil. Abth.2 p.125,186
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pipridae / Heterocercus
Taxonomy Code: yecman2
Type Locality: Rio Negro, Marabitanas, Rio Xie, Rio Iganna, Rio Vaupe, and Barcellos [Brazil] ; restricted to Marabitanas by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 103.
Author: von Pelzeln
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HETEROCERCUS
(Pipridae; Ϯ Flame-crested Manakin H. linteatus) Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; κερκος kerkos tail; "both sexes possess the graduated tail with the outermost rectrices shortest and narrowest (being about half the length and width of the central tail feathers). Furthermore, the feather rachises of the rectrices are curiously unstiffened" (Kirwan & Green 2011); "Genus HETEROCERCUS. 1494. HETEROCERCUS LINTEATUS. Elænia linteata, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 121. pl. 63. Heterocercus linteatus, Hartl. in Mus. Brem." (P. Sclater 1862); "Heterocercus Sclater, 1862, Cat. Coll. Amer. Birds, p. 245. Type, by monotypy, Elaenia linteata Strickland." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 257).
heterocercus
Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; κερκος kerkos tail.
flavivertex
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; vertex, verticis crown of the head < vertere to turn.
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)
