Little Sunangel
Little Sunangel
Here the details of the Little Sunangel named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Heliangelus micraster Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(4), 9 p.195
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Heliangelus
Taxonomy Code: litsun1
Type Locality: San Lucas, Ecuador.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1872
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HELIANGELUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Longuemare's Sunangel H. clarisse) Gr. ἡλιος hēlios sun; αγγελος angelos angel; "Genus HELIANGELUS. Gen. char.—Rostrum rectum, æque ac caput longum, cylindraceum, et ad basin aliquanto depressum. Plumæ frontales rostri basin non obtegentes. Alæ mediocriter validæ primaria externa falciformi. Pedes mediocriter validi, halluce digitum intermedium æquante. Cauda mediocris, subrotundata. ... All the species of this genus are from the Andes, and distinguished by the extreme lustre of the throat, which in most of the species is bounded below by a gorget of white or buff. Types, Trochilus Clarisse, Spencei, amethysticollis, and strophianus. HELIANGELUS MAVORS (n. sp.)" (Gould 1848); "Heliangelus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 16, 1848, p. 12. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus clarissae [i.e. Ornismya clarisse] Longuemare. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22)." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 105).
Synon. Anactoria, Diotima, Heliotrypha, Heliotryphon, Helymus, Nodalia, Parzudakia, Peratus, Warszewiczia.
micraster
Gr. μικρος mikros small; αστηρ astēr, αστερος asteros star.
MICRASTUR
(Falconidae; Ϯ Collared Forest Falcon M. semitorquatus) Gr. μικρος mikros little, short; genus Astur de Lacépède, 1799, goshawk; "MICRASTUR, G. R. Gray (1841). Brachypterusc, Less. (1837). Astur, Spix. M. brachypterus, (Temm.) G. R. Gray, Pl. col. 141. F. concentricus, Ill. ... cPreviously used ending in yx." (G. Gray 1841); "Micrastur G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1841, p. 6. Type, by original designation, Falco brachypterus Temminck = Sparvius semitorquatus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, 1, 276) (see Brachypterus).
Var. Micraster.
Synon. Brachypterus, Carnifex, Clamosocircus, Climacocercus, Nothierax, Rhyncomegas, Thrasyaccipiter.
SUBSPECIES
Little Sunangel (micraster)
SCI Name: Heliangelus micraster micraster
micraster
Gr. μικρος mikros small; αστηρ astēr, αστερος asteros star.
Little Sunangel (cutervensis)
SCI Name: Heliangelus micraster cutervensis
cutervensis
Cutervo, Cajamarca, Peru.
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)