Green-throated Mountain-gem

Here the details of the Green-throated Mountain-gem named bird below:

SCI Name:  Lampornis viridipallens
Protonym:  Trochilus Viridi-Pallens Ann.Sci.Phys.Nat.Agric.Ind. 9 p.321
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Lampornis
Taxonomy Code:  gtmgem1
Type Locality:  Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala.
Author:  Bourcier & Mulsant
Publish Year:  1846
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LAMPORNIS
(Trochilidae; † Amethyst-throated Hummingbird L. amethystinus) Gr. λαμπη lampē  torch, light; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "G. LAMPORNIS.  Swainson in Zool. Journ. No. 10.   100. Lampornis amethystinus. Sw.   Green; chin and upper part of the throat amethystine; ears black, margined above with white; tail black.  Female?  Tableland.  Temiscaltipec.  Real del Monte." (Swainson 1827 (June)); "Lampornis Swainson, Philos. Mag. (n.s.), 1, June, 1827, p. 442.  Type, by monotypy, Lampornis amethystinus Swainson." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 80). 
Synon. Chariessa, Coeligena, Cyanolaemus, Delattria, Himelia, Leuconympha, Oreopyra, Prodosia.
• (Trochilidae; syn. Anthracothorax † Jamaican Mango A. mango) "LAMPORNIS.  Rostrum sub-arcuatum. Cauda brevis, æqualis.  Types. 1. T. mango, L.  2. pella, L.  3. niger. Sw., Zool. Ill.   Bill arched.  Tail short, even." (Swainson 1827); "Lampornis Swainson, 1827 (Dec.), Zoological Journal, III, p. 358.  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 13), L. mango (L.) Swains., i.e. Trochilus mango Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2020).
• (Trochilidae; syn. Florisuga † White-necked Jacobin F. mellivora) "LES LAMPORNIS.  Lampornis, Swains.  ...  ESP. 20.  OISEAU-MOUCHE JACOBINE.  Ornismya mellivora, N. pl. XXI (mâle), et XXII (femelle)." (Lesson 1829) (twenty-seven further 'espèces' are listed); "Lampornis Lesson, 1829, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux-Mouches, p. xxiij.  Type, by subsequent designation (Elliot, 1879, Smithsonian Contrib. Knowledge, 317, Classif. Synop. Trochilidae, p. 47), Florisuga mellivora, i.e. Trochilus mellivorus Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2020).
• (Trochilidae; syn. Topaza † Crimson Topaz T. pella) Reichenbach's 1850, plate XXXIX, labelled Trochilinae: Avocettulinae.Polytminae, includes the distinctive features and head-pattern of the Crimson Topaz; "Lampornis Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Systema Naturale, pl. XXXIX (no specific names given).  Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 21), Trochilus pella Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2020).

viridipallens
Mod. L. viridipallens  pale-green  < L. viridis  green  < virere  to be green; pallens, pallentis  pale  < pallere  to be pale.

SUBSPECIES

Green-throated Mountain-gem (amadoni)
SCI Name: Lampornis viridipallens amadoni
amadoni / amadonis
Dr Dean Amadon (1912-2003) US ornithologist at AMNH 1937-2003 (syn. Alcedo meninting, syn. Anthreptes tephrolaemus, subsp. Cinnyris minullus, subsp. Coracina welchmani, subsp. Eurillas virens, syn. Geokichla citrina cyanota, subsp. Hirundo aethiopica, subsp. Lampornis viridipallens, syn. Lamprotornis chalybaeus, syn. Rimator malacoptilus, subsp. Spinus crassirostris, subsp. Treron pompadora, syn. Urotriorchis macrourus).

Green-throated Mountain-gem (ovandensis)
SCI Name: Lampornis viridipallens ovandensis
ovandensis
Monte Ovando, Chiapas, Mexico.

Green-throated Mountain-gem (viridipallens)
SCI Name: Lampornis viridipallens viridipallens
viridipallens
Mod. L. viridipallens  pale-green  < L. viridis  green  < virere  to be green; pallens, pallentis  pale  < pallere  to be pale.

Green-throated Mountain-gem (nubivagus)
SCI Name: Lampornis viridipallens nubivagus
nubivagus
L. nubivagus  wandering amongst the clouds  < nubes, nubis  cloud; vagari  to wander.