Loddigesia Mirabilis Bird

Loddigesia Mirabilis Bird

Loddigesia Mirabilis Bird

English Name:  Marvelous Spatuletail
Latin Name:  Loddigesia mirabilis
Protonym:  Trochilus mirabilis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt15 no.171 p.42
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Loddigesia
Taxonomy Code:  marspa1
Type Locality:  Chachapoyas, Peru.
Author:  Bourcier
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

LODDIGESIA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Marvellous Spatuletail L. mirabilis) George Loddiges (1786-1846) English horticulturalist, microscopist and trochilidist; "*184. Loddigesia, Gould, 1850. (Mellisuga, p. Gr.)   America m.  1.   TROCHILUS mirabilis, Loddig. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1847. - Gr. et Mitch. Gen. B. t. 37. ex Peru. Chachapoyas." (Bonaparte 1850); "Loddigesia "Gould" Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, Mar., 1850, p. 80. Type, by monotypy, Trochilus mirabilis Loddiges i.e. Bourcier." (Peters 1945, V, 128).
Var. Loddiggesia.
Synon. Loddigiornis, Mulsantia, Thaumatoessa.

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).