Eriocnemis Mirabilis Bird
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Eriocnemis Mirabilis Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Eriocnemis mirabilis Not.Nat. no.402 p.1
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Eriocnemis
Taxonomy Code: colpuf2
Type Locality:
Author: Meyer de Schauensee
Publish Year: 1967
IUCN Status: 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.
mirabilis
L. mirabilis marvellous < mirari to admire < mirus wonderful, astonishing.
● ex “Poephile admirable” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1842 (syn. Chloebia gouldiae).
● ex “Parkinson” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (syn. Menura novaehollandiae).
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)
