Eriocnemis Godini Bird

English Name:  Turquoise-throated Puffleg
Latin Name:  Eriocnemis godini
Protonym:  Trochilus Godini Compt.Rend. 32 p.186
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Eriocnemis
Taxonomy Code:  tutpuf1
Type Locality:  Ravines in the Valley of Guayabamba, [Ecuador].
Author:  Bourcier
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

ERIOCNEMIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Coppery-bellied Puffleg E. cupreoventris) Gr. εριον erion  wool; κνημις knēmis, κνημιδος knēmidos  boot, legging. Reichenbach's 1849, plate XL, labelled Trochilinae. Mellisuginae. Phaetorninae, clearly shows the fluffy tarsal tufts typical of these hummingbirds; "The sexes are very much alike, and both have the white muff-like decoration on the leg, but it is not so much developed in the female as in the male" (Gould 1861); "Eriocnemis Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. xl. Generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Eriopus simplex Gould = Trochilus cupreo-ventris Fraser (Gould, Monogr. Trochil. pt. 3, 1852, pl. [8] and text)." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 108).   
Var. Eriocnemys, Euryocnemis.   
Synon. Aline, Derbyomyia, Engyete, Erebenna, Eriona, Eriopus, Luciania, Mosqueria, Nania, Niche, Phemonoe, Pholoe, Threptria, Vestipedes.

godini
Louis Godin (1704-1760) French scientist, astronomer in Hispaniola, Ecuador and Peru 1735-1751 (cf. “Jean Godin des Odonais (1712-1792) ...French naturalist [nephew of Louis Godin] who was a professor in Quito” (Beolens & Watkins 2003)) (‡Eriocnemis).