Flores White-eye
Flores White-eye
Here the details of the Flores White-eye named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Zosterops crassirostris Novit.Zool. 4 p.172 pl.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Zosteropidae / Heleia
Taxonomy Code: flowhe1
Type Locality: southern Flores.
Author: Hartert, E
Publish Year: 1897
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HELEIA
(Zosteropidae; Ϯ Timor Heleia H. muelleri) Gr. ελεια eleia small bird, otherwise unidentified, mentioned by Callimachus; "b. Heleia nob. Rostrum validum. Pedes robusti. Ptilosis maculata. Cauda longa rotundata. 45. H. Mülleri Nob. ... Timor. Entschieden aberrante Form. Schnabel und Beine sehr kräftig. Die Brust erscheint am stärksten gefleckt. Schnabel-färbung heller als bei den typischen Arten. ... Syn. Zosterops frontalis Müll. in Mus. Lugdun." (Hartlaub 1865); "Heleia Hartlaub, 1865, Journ. f. Orn., 13, p. 26. Type, by monotypy, H. Mülleri Hartlaub." (Mayr in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 324). This bird was formerly known as the Spot-breasted White-eye.
Var. Helia.
Synon. Apoia, Lophozosterops, Oculocincta, Pseudozosterops.
crassirostra / crassirostre / crassirostris
L. crassus thick, heavy; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Coucou à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 214 (syn. Eudynamys scolopaceus).
● ex “Alouette à Gros Bec” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 193 (syn. Galerida magnirostris).
● ex “Thick-billed Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Oryzoborus).
● ex “Thick-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡syn. Turnagra capensis).
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)