Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Here the details of the Yellow-bellied Elaenia named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: P[ipra] flavogaster Mem.Acad.Imp.Sci.St.Petersb. 8 p.283,286
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Elaenia
Taxonomy Code: yebela1
Type Locality: 'presumably Rio [de] Janeiro [, Brazil] (from Westin, Swedish Consul at that station).
Author: Thunberg
Publish Year: 1822
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ELAENIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Elaenia E. flavogaster) Gr. ελαινεος elaineos of olive-oil, oleaginous < ελαια elaia olive; "Elænia n. g. 6) Musc. pagana Licht.; brevirostris, — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max; — Hylophilus cinerascens ejusd. Numerosæ americanæ, transitum ad Tyrannides præbentes; Fringillis subsimiles. ... 6) Rostrum crassiusculum, breve, basi dilatatum, altitudine latius; carina dorsali subacuta, sutura recta. Membrana narium plumulis tecta. Vibrissæ tenues. Alæ mediocres vel sub-breves, rotundatæ, remigib. 3-5 reliqvis longioribus. Pedes mediocres, digitis brevibus, subliberis. Olivaceæ-cinerascentes; sæpe subtus, interdum vertice flavæ. — Eλαινιος, oleagineus." (Sundevall 1836); "Elaenia Sundevall, 1836, Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 1835, p. 89. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flavogaster Thunberg." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 26-27).
Var. Elaenea, Elainea, Elainia, Eloenia, Elana, Elania.
flavogaster
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; gaster, gasteris belly < Gr. γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros belly.
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (subpagana)
SCI Name: Elaenia flavogaster subpagana
subpagana
L. sub near to; specific name Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein, 1823 (= syn. Elaenia flavogaster) (subsp. Elaenia flavogaster).
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (pallididorsalis)
SCI Name: Elaenia flavogaster pallididorsalis
pallididorsalis
L. pallidus pale < pallere to be pale; dorsalis (properly dorsualis) of the back, -backed < dorsum back.
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (flavogaster)
SCI Name: Elaenia flavogaster flavogaster
flavogaster
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; gaster, gasteris belly < Gr. γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros belly.
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (semipagana)
SCI Name: Elaenia flavogaster semipagana
semipagana
L. semi- semi- < semis, semissis half < as, assis whole; specific name Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein, 1823 (= syn. Elaenia flavogaster) (subsp. Elaenia flavogaster).
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)