Chaetocercus Heliodor Bird
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Chaetocercus Heliodor Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Ornismya heliodor Rev.Zool. 3 p.275
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Chaetocercus
Taxonomy Code: gorwoo2
Type Locality: Bogota.
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1840
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHAETOCERCUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Rufous-shafted Woodstar C. jourdainii) Gr. χαιτη khaitē long flowing hair; κερκος kerkos tail; "queue composée de huit plumes à baguettes très-resistantes, relevées de bas en haut ... les deux plumes extérieures de la queue se terminant en pointe très-aiguë et de moitié plus courte que les précédentes" (Bourcier 1839); "349. CHÆTOCERCUS, G. R. Gr. 1853. (Trochilus Jourdani, Bourc.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Chætocercus G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Trochilus (i.e. Ornismya) jourdanii Bourcier." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 140).
Synon. Acestrura, Osalia, Polymnia, Polyxemus.
heliodor
Claude Joseph Héliodore Bourcier (1826-1869) son of French diplomat and trochilidist Claude-Marie Jules Bourcier (Chaetocercus).
SUBSPECIES
Gorgeted Woodstar (heliodor)
Latin Name: Chaetocercus heliodor heliodor
heliodor
Claude Joseph Héliodore Bourcier (1826-1869) son of French diplomat and trochilidist Claude-Marie Jules Bourcier (Chaetocercus).
Gorgeted Woodstar (cleavesi)
Latin Name: Chaetocercus heliodor cleavesi
cleavesi
Marilynn Cleaves Moore (b. 1925) daughter of US ornithologist Robert T. Moore (Martin Schneider and Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (subsp. Chaetocercus heliodor).
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)
