Santa Marta Blossomcrown
Santa Marta Blossomcrown
Here the details of the Santa Marta Blossomcrown named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus (--?) floriceps Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1853) (1853), Pt21 no.251 p.62
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Anthocephala
Taxonomy Code: samblo1
Type Locality: 5000 feet, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1853
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
ANTHOCEPHALA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Santa Marta Blossomcrown A. floriceps) Gr. ανθος anthos blossom; κεφαλη kephalē head; "Forehead buffy white, passing into a beautiful deep peach-blossom hue on the crown" (Gould 1854); "Dagegen ist der von Bonaparte ganz ohne Bedenken von Gould schon mit weniger Entschiedenheit zu Adelomyia (!) gezogene Trochilus floriceps Gould als eigene Gattung Anthocephala (von ανθος, Blume, und κεφαλη, Kopf) aufzuführen: A. floriceps. — Trochilus floriceps Gould P. Z. S. 1853. p. 62. — Id. Athen. 1853. p. 481. — Metallura floriceps Rchb. Aufz. Colibr. p. 8. — Id. Troch. Enum. p. 5. — Adelomyia floriceps Bp. Consp. Troch. p. 7. gen. 44. 164. — Gould Mon. Troch. IX. t. 14 (Santa Martha)." (Cabanis & Heine 1860); "Anthocephala Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., Th. 3, 1860, p. 72, note. Type, by monotypy, Trochilus floriceps Gould." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 85).
Var. Anthrocephala.
Synon. Simonula.
floriceps
L. flos, floris blossom; -ceps -crowned < caput, capitis head.
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)