Myzomela Wakoloensis Bird
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Myzomela Wakoloensis Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Myzomela wakoloensis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.116
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Myzomela
Taxonomy Code: wakmyz1
Type Locality: Lake Wakolo, Burn Island.
Author: Forbes, HO
Publish Year: 1883
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.
wakoloensis
Lake Wakolo, Buru, Moluccas, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
SUBSPECIES
Wakolo Myzomela (Seram)
Latin Name: Myzomela wakoloensis elisabethae
elisabethae
● Elizaveta Vladimirovna Pushkariova-Kozlova (1892-1972) Russian ornithologist, wife of explorer Gen. Pyotr K. Kozlov (syn. Emberiza hortulana, syn. Strix nebulosa lapponica).
● Catharina Elisabeth Boldewina Lecky Baroness van Dedem (1842-1912) sister of Dutch naturalist Frederik Karel Baron van Dedem, lady-in-waiting to Queen Sophia of the Netherlands, and wife of Irish essayist William Edward Hartpole Lecky (subsp. Myzomela wakoloensis).
● Elizabeth La Touche (1912-1988) daughter of Irish ornithologist John D. D. La Touche (subsp. Serilophus lunatus, subsp. Sinosuthora webbiana).
● see elizabethae
Wakolo Myzomela (Buru)
Latin Name: Myzomela wakoloensis wakoloensis
wakoloensis
Lake Wakolo, Buru, Moluccas, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia.
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)
