Horornis Parens Bird
Horornis Parens Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Vitia parens Am.Mus.Novit. no.820 p.4
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Scotocercidae / Horornis
Taxonomy Code: shawar1
Type Locality: San Cristobal, Solomon Islands.
Author: Mayr
Publish Year: 1935
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HORORNIS
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Brownish-flanked Bush Warbler H. fortipes) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos hill; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "The others have the tarse scutellate and rather longer, and the tail broad and fan-shaped, and not at all rigid or worn; these I style Horornis, though they hardly deserve subgeneric separation. ... Genus Horornis, mihi. General structure of Tribura, but the rictus more or less armed; the tarse strongly scaled; the wings more gradated, having the fifth or sixth longest, and the tail broad, fan-shaped, and not worn or rigid. Inhabits the northern hills; manners unknown. Types, fortipes and flaviventris. H. fortipes, mihi. ... H. flaviventris, mihi. ... H.? fuligiventer, mihi.— Aberrant; probably a Tribura. ... H.? fulviventris, mihi." (Hodgson 1845); "550. HORORNIS, Hodgs. 1844. (Horornis flaviventris, Hodgs.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Horornis Hodgson, 1845, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 31. Types H. fortipes and H. flaviventris; restricted to H. fortipes (Seebohm, 1881, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 5, p. 133)." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 8) (see Tribura).
Synon. Antiornis, Drymochaera, Gladkovia, Herbivox, Homochlamys, Psamathia, Vitia.
parens
L. parens, parentis evident < parere to become evident.
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)