Chrysophlegma Mentale Bird
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Chrysophlegma Mentale Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Picus mentalis Pl.Col. livr.65 pl.384
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Chrysophlegma
Taxonomy Code: chtwoo1
Type Locality: Java.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1826
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
CHRYSOPHLEGMA
(Picidae; Ϯ Greater Yellow-nape C. flavinucha) Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; φλεγμα phlegma, φλεγματος phlegmatos heat, flame; "CHRYSOPHLEGMA FLAVINUCHA, Gould. Yellow-naped Woodpecker. ... Head olive-green, washed with rufous on the forehead; occiput adorned with lengthened silky rich yellow feathers ... primaries and inner webs of the secondaries chestnut, crossed by broad bands of, and largely tipped with, brownish black" (Gould 1850); "Chrysophlegma Gould, Bds. Asia, pt. 1, 1850, pl. [6] and text [= 6, pl. 36 of volume.] Type, by monotypy, Picus flavinucha Gould." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 130).
Synon. Brachylophus.
mentale / mentalis
Mod. L. mentalis pertaining to the chin < French mental of the chin < L. mentum chin (cf. Late L. mentalis of the mind < L. mens, mentis mind).
● ex “Langrayen de Viti” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1843 (Artamus).
SUBSPECIES
Checker-throated Woodpecker (Checker-throated)
Latin Name: Chrysophlegma mentale humii
humii
Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912) English civil servant in India 1850-1894, ornithologist, collector, founder of journal ‘Stray Feathers’ (subsp. Carpodacus puniceus, Chrysophlegma, subsp. Coccothraustes coccothraustes, subsp. Hypsipetes ganeesa, syn. Periparus ater aemodius, syn. Psilopogon mystacophanos, Pycnonotus leucogenys x P. leucotis hybrid, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris (ex Sturnus nitens Hume, 1871), subsp. Suthora nipalensis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).
Checker-throated Woodpecker (Javan)
Latin Name: Chrysophlegma mentale mentale
mentale / mentalis
Mod. L. mentalis pertaining to the chin < French mental of the chin < L. mentum chin (cf. Late L. mentalis of the mind < L. mens, mentis mind).
● ex “Langrayen de Viti” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1843 (Artamus).
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)
