Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher
Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher
Here the details of the Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Meloenornis ardesiaca Bull.Mus.Nat.Hist.Nat.Paris(2), 8 p.329
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Melaenornis
Taxonomy Code: yebfly2
Type Locality: Mbwahi, Kivu, Belgian Congo; altitude about 2,000 meters.
Author: Berlioz
Publish Year: 1936
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "MELAENORNIS, n. Melasoma a, Swains. M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n. Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29. ... a Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).
Var. Melaehornis, Meloenornis.
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.
ardesiaca / ardesiacea / ardesiacus
Mod. L. ardesiacus slate-coloured, slaty < French ardoisé slate-grey.
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)