Greenish Puffleg
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Greenish Puffleg
Here the details of the Greenish Puffleg named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Aureliae Ann.Sci.Phys.Nat.Agric.Ind. 9 p.315 pl.10
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Haplophaedia
Taxonomy Code: grepuf1
Type Locality: Bogota.
Author: Bourcier & Mulsant
Publish Year: 1846
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HAPLOPHAEDIA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Greenish Puffleg H. aureliae) Gr. ἁπλοος haploos sheer, simple; φαιδρος phaidros brilliant, bright; "35e ... Haplophædia (n. gen. pour Trochilus Aureliæ B. et M.)." (Simon 1918) (OD per Martin Schneider); "12. Haplophædia, nov. gen. — Diffre du genre Threptria Reichenbach (type Trochilus Mosquera D. et B. désigné par Gray en 1855), par la queue plus courte et peu fourchue, avec les rectrices, sauf parfois les médianes, noires, les latérales plus larges et obtuses; le bec généralement de la longueur de la tête; les touffes tibiales le plus souvent en partie rousse. Type: Trochilus Aureliæ B. et M., des Andes de la Colombie et de l'Ecuador." (Simon 1919);"Haplophaedia Simon, Notice sur les Travaux Scientifiques, 1918, p. 39. Type, by monotypy, Trochilus aureliae Bourcier and Mulsant." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 112).
aureliae
● Péronne Aurélie Hénon née Favre (1814-1889) wife of French botanist and politician Dr Jacques-Louis Hénon (Haplophaedia).
● L. aureolus golden < aureus golden < aurum gold; "Refers to the enhanced golden bronze tinge of the plumage" (Weller & Schuchmann 2004); "Grammatically this is terrible.." (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Lesbia gouldii).
SUBSPECIES
Greenish Puffleg (caucensis)
SCI Name: Haplophaedia aureliae caucensis
caucensis
Río Cauca, Colombia.
Greenish Puffleg (aureliae)
SCI Name: Haplophaedia aureliae aureliae
aureliae
● Péronne Aurélie Hénon née Favre (1814-1889) wife of French botanist and politician Dr Jacques-Louis Hénon (Haplophaedia).
● L. aureolus golden < aureus golden < aurum gold; "Refers to the enhanced golden bronze tinge of the plumage" (Weller & Schuchmann 2004); "Grammatically this is terrible.." (Laurent Raty in litt.) (subsp. Lesbia gouldii).
Greenish Puffleg (russata)
SCI Name: Haplophaedia aureliae russata
russata / russatum / russatus
L. russatus clothed in red, reddened < russus russet.
Greenish Puffleg (cutucuensis)
SCI Name: Haplophaedia aureliae cutucuensis
cutucuensis
Cordillera de Cutucú, Morona-Santiago, eastern Ecuador.
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)
