White-fronted Bee-eater
White-fronted Bee-eater
Here the details of the White-fronted Bee-eater named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Merops Bullockoides S.Afr.Q.J.(2) -2 p.320
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Meropidae / Merops
Taxonomy Code: wfbeat1
Type Locality: South Africa, restricted to the Marico district, Transvaal, by Grant and Praed, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., 57, 1937, p. 129.
Author: Smith, A
Publish Year: 1834
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis bee-eater < Gr. μεροψ merops bee-eater; "57. MEROPS. Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum. Lingua apice laciniata. Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.
bullockoides
Specific name Merops bullockii A. Smith, 1834 (= Merops Bulocki Vieillot, 1817); Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "Merops Bullockii. ... Inhabits Senegal. Merops Bullockoides, Smith. ... Inhabits South Africa. Obs. This may be only a variety of the former, or the opposite sex." (A. Smith 1834) (Merops).
SUBSPECIES
White-fronted Bee-eater (bullockoides)
SCI Name: Merops bullockoides bullockoides
bullockoides
Specific name Merops bullockii A. Smith, 1834 (= Merops Bulocki Vieillot, 1817); Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "Merops Bullockii. ... Inhabits Senegal. Merops Bullockoides, Smith. ... Inhabits South Africa. Obs. This may be only a variety of the former, or the opposite sex." (A. Smith 1834) (Merops).
White-fronted Bee-eater (randorum)
SCI Name: Merops bullockoides randorum
randorum
Dr Austin Loomer Rand (1905-1982) Canadian ornithologist, Curator at Field Mus., Chicago 1947-1970 (OD per Björn Bergenholtz) (syn. Merops bullockoides).
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)