Melanopareia Maranonica Bird

Melanopareia Maranonica Bird

Melanopareia Maranonica Bird

English Name:  Marañon Crescentchest
Latin Name:  Melanopareia maranonica
Protonym:  Melanopareia maranonicus Am.Mus.Novit. no.123 p.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Melanopareiidae / Melanopareia
Taxonomy Code:  marcre1
Type Locality:  Perico, Rio Chinchipe, Peru.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1924
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

MELANOPAREIA
(Melanopareiidae; Ϯ Olive-crowned Crescentchest M. maximiliani) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; παρηιον parēion  cheek; "LXXXII. Melanopareia RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel etwas stärker, ein wenig gekrümmt, Schwanz stark abgerundet, fast gestutzt. Kleid eigenthümlich: Wangen und Gurgelquerband schwarz, Schulterfederchen weiß, Beine fleischfarben gelblich.— Andeutung der Gattung Thamnophilus, nach des Beobachters D'ORBIGNY eigener Bemerkung.    367. M. Maximiliani (Synall. — D'ORBG. voy. 247. S. torquata Synops. et pl. 15. 1.) RCHB. t. DXXIII. 3619.   ...   368. M. torquata (Synall. —us M. N.-W. Beitr. III. 697.) RCHB. t. DXXIII. 3620." (Reichenbach 1853); "Melanopareia Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 146, 164. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis maximiliani d'Orbigny (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters 1951, VII, 281).
Synon. Rhoporchilis.

maranonica / smaranonicum / maranonicus
Río Marañón, Peru. The Tupí originally applied the name Maranon to the Rio Parana in Brazil; it was later used of the main Amazon, and is now the name of the upper or Peruvian reaches of that river.