Velvet-purple Coronet
Velvet-purple Coronet
Here the details of the Velvet-purple Coronet named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Jardini Compt.Rend. 32 p.187
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Boissonneaua
Taxonomy Code: vepcor1
Type Locality: Nanegal, Ecuador.
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1851
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BOISSONNEAUA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Buff-tailed Coronet B. flavescens) Auguste Boissonneau (1802-1883) French ornithologist, natural history dealer, ocularist; "b. Ochrurae. ... *Boissonneaua flavescens (Tr. — LODD. 1832.) RCHB. — St. Fé de Bog." (Reichenbach 1854); "Boissonneaua Reichenbach, 1854, Journal für Ornithologie, I, Extraheft, Aufzählung der Colibris, p. 11. Type, by monotypy, Trochilus flavescens Loddiges, 1832." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Boissonneauxia.
Synon. Alosia, Callidice, Galenia, Panoplites.
jardinei / jardineii / jardini / jardinii
● “Amongst the Raptorial specimens which were acquired for the Norwich Museum at the recent sale of the collection of the late Sir William Jardine is a Hawk ...I propose to call [it] ...in commemoration of the collection from which it passed into that of the Norwich Museum” (Gurney 1887) (syn. Accipiter poliogaster).
● Sir William Jardine, Bt. (1800-1874) Scottish ornithologist (Boissonneaua, syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus bifasciatus ("jardinei"), syn. Cinnyris bifasciatus microrhynchus ("jardinii"), syn. Circus assimilis (ex “Circus affinis Jardine & Selby” = Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby, 1828), syn. Edolisoma tenuirostre (ex Graucalus tenuirostris Jardine, 1831), Glaucidium, syn. Lanius senator, subsp. Leuconotopicus villosus, syn. Melanodryas cucullata, syn. Sarothrura affinis, syn. Spodiornis rusticus, syn. Tityra inquisitor, Turdoides, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Jardine Creek, Cape York, Queensland, Australia (syn. Lichmera cockerelli, subsp. Melloria quoyi).
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)