Dinopium Psarodes Bird
Dinopium Psarodes Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Picus psarodes Cat.Rer.nat.rar. p.19 no.189,190
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Dinopium
Taxonomy Code: bkrfla2
Type Locality:
Author: Lichtenstein, AAH
Publish Year: 1793
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DINOPIUM
(Picidae; Ϯ Common Flame-back D. javanense) Gr. δεινος deinos mighty, huge; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos appearance; "Description de 4 nouvelles espèces d'Oiseaux de l'Ile de Java, observés dans le museum de Mr. Peale à Philadelphie, Turnix javanica, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus, Hirundo longipennis et Sylvia cuneata." (Rafinesque 1814); "Dinopium Rafinesque, Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie, 1814, p. 2 of cover. Type, by monotypy, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus Rafinesque, which is based on "le picoïde à dos rouge", Bull. des Sciences de Soc. Philom., Paris, 3, 1803, p. 146 = Picus javanensis Ljungh." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 143).
Var. Dinopicus (Gr. πικος pikos woodpecker).
Synon. Brachypternopicus, Brachypternus, Brahmapicus, Chloropicoides, Chrysonotus, Gauropicoides, Mesospilus, Tiga.
psarodes
Gr. ψαρος psaros speckled, like a starling < ψαρ psar, ψαρος psaros starling; -οιδης -oidēs -resembling; "Picus psarodes; nobis. Picus cristatus; corpore supra, pro sexus diversitate, vario ... Habitat in India orientali. Pro varietate pici Bengalensis Linn. spec. 13. haberi posset. Ein Paar ganz neue gesprenkelte Spechte aus Ostindien" (Lichtenstein 1793) (Dinopium).
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)