Myzomela Rubratra Bird

English Name:  Micronesian Myzomela
Latin Name:  Myzomela rubratra
Protonym:  Cinnyris rubrater Dict.Sci.Nat. 50 p.30
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Myzomela
Taxonomy Code:  micmyz1
Type Locality:  Oualan [= Kusaie] Island.
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYZOMELA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Scarlet Myzomela M. sanguinolenta) Gr. μυζαω muzaō  to suck; μελι meli  honey; "This section forms an interesting subdivision of the present group [Meliphagidae], as marking the passage to the Cinnyridæ ...  this type of form may be generically characterized as follows, the Mel. cardinalis being the normal species.  Genus. MYZOMELA.  Rostrum breve, gracile; culmine arcuato, ad basin subcultrato; naribus longitudinalibus, linearibus, perangustis, membrana supra tectis, rostri tertiam partem longitudine æquantibus.  Lingua, alæ, pedesque iidem fere ut in Meliphagis veris.  Cauda subbrevis, æqualis" (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myzomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 318 [=316]. Type, by original designation, Meliphaga cardinalis Vigors and Horsfield = Certhia sanguinolenta Latham." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 350).
Var. Mysomela.
Synon. Cosmeteira, Melomyza.    

rubrater / rubratra
L. ruber, rubra  red; ater, atra  black.

SUBSPECIES

Micronesian Myzomela (rubratra)
Latin Name: Myzomela rubratra rubratra
rubrater / rubratra
L. ruber, rubra  red; ater, atra  black.

Micronesian Myzomela (dichromata)
Latin Name: Myzomela rubratra dichromata
dichromata
Gr. διχρωμος dikhrōmos  two-coloured  < δι di-  double  < δις dis  twice  < δυο duo  two; χρωμα khrōma, χρωματος khrōmatos  colour  < χρωζω khrōzō  to stain.

Micronesian Myzomela (major)
Latin Name: Myzomela rubratra major
major
L. maior, maioris  greater, larger  < comp. magnus  great, large, powerful.
● ex “Poule d’eau de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 352; “Even if [Statius Müller, 1776] ...should some day be repudiated by ornithologists on account of his carelessness and his apparent colour-blindness, then the proper name of the species would be Aramides major (Boddaert), founded on Daubenton’s plate” (Sharpe 1894) (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Grand Corbeau” of Levaillant 1800, pl. 51 (unident.;?Corvus sp.).
● ex “Crotophagus major” of Brisson 1760, “Grand bout de Petun” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 102, fig. 1, “Ani des palétuviers” of Salerne 1767, and “Greater Ani” of Latham 1781 (Crotophaga).
● 54. PICUS.  ...  major.  10. P. albo nigroque varius, ano occipiteque rubro.  Picus albo nigroque varius, rectricibus tribus lateralibus utrinque albescentibus. Fn. svec. 81.  Picus varius major. Ges. av. 708. Aldr. ornith. l. 12. c. 32. Will. orn. 94. t. 21. Raj. av. 43. Alb. av. I. p. 19. t. 19. Frisch. av. . . t. 36. f. 1.  Habitat in Europa." (Linnaeus 1758) (Dendrocopos).
● ex “Grande Egrette d’Amérique” of d’Aubenton, 1765-1781, pl. 925 (syn. Egretta garzetta).
● ex “Scolopax media” of Frisch 1733-1763, “Great Snipe” of Pennant 1768, and Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinago media).
● ex “Grand Indicateur, mâle” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 241, fig. 1 (syn. Indicator indicator).
● ex “Pie-grièche Blanchot” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 285 (syn. Malaconotus blanchoti).
● ex “An other sort of Loggerhead” of Sloane 1707-1725, “Sitta” or “Picus cinereus major, rostro curvo” of Ray 1713, “Grand Sittelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Great Nuthatch” of Latham 1781 (?syn. Myiarchus validus).
● ex “Parus major” of Gessner 1555, Belon 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Fringillago”, “Great Titmouse” or “Ox Eye” of Ray 1713, and Albin 1731, and “Parus capite nigro, temporibus albis, nucha luteis” of Linnaeus 1746 (Parus).
● ex “Grèbe de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 404, fig. 1, and “Grand Grèbe” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Podiceps).
● ex “Barbican des côtes de Barbarie” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 602 (syn. Pogonornis dubius).
● ex “Grande Quiscale” of Vieillot 1819 (Quiscalus).
● ex “Tangara des grands bois de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 205 (syn. Saltator maximus).
● ex “Batara mayor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 211 (Taraba).
● ex “Macucagua” of Marcgrave 1648, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, “Perdix brasiliensis” of Brisson 1760, and “Magoua” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Tinamus).
● ex “Trepadore grande” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 241 (Xiphocolaptes).

Micronesian Myzomela (kurodai)
Latin Name: Myzomela rubratra kurodai
kurodae / kurodaei / kurodai
Nagamichi Marquis Kuroda (1889-1978) Japanese ornithologist (subsp. Aplonis opaca, syn. Apus pacificus, syn. Dendrocitta frontalis, syn. Dendrocopos leucotos namiyei, syn. Emberiza variabilis, syn. Microscelis amaurotis harterti, subsp. Myzomela rubratra, syn. Picoides canicapillus nagamichii, syn. Picoides kizuki seebohmi, syn. Picoides tridactylus, syn. Turdus celaenops).

Micronesian Myzomela (kobayashii)
Latin Name: Myzomela rubratra kobayashii
kobayashi / kobayashii
● Kenzō (later Keisuke) Kobayashi, Jr. (1908-2000) Japanese ornithologist, oologist (Mark Brown and Laurent Raty in litt.) (syn. Luscinia akahige tanensis, syn. Pycnonotus sinensis orii).
● Keisuke Kobayashi, Sr. (1879-1933) Japanese ornithologist, oologist, collector (subsp. Myzomela rubratra).

Micronesian Myzomela (asuncionis)
Latin Name: Myzomela rubratra asuncionis
asuncionis
Asuncion I., Marianas Is., Pacific Ocean (named in 1669 by Spanish missionaries after the Asunción de la Virgen, Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, celebrated on 15th August).

Micronesian Myzomela (saffordi)
Latin Name: Myzomela rubratra saffordi
saffordi
● Dr. Roger James Safford (b. 1967) British ornithologist, conservationist (subsp. Aerodramus francicus).
● Lt. William Edwin Safford (1859-1926) US Navy, anthropologist, botanist, Lt.-Gov. of Guam 1889-1900 (subsp. Myzomela rubratra).