Apo Myna
Apo Myna
Here the details of the Apo Myna named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Goodfellowia miranda Bull.Br.Orn.Club 14 p.11
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Goodfellowia
Taxonomy Code: apomyn2
Type Locality: Mindanao.
Author: Hartert, E
Publish Year: 1903
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
GOODFELLOWIA
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Apo Myna G. miranda) Walter Goodfellow (1866-1953) English explorer, ornithologist, collector in Colombia, Ecuador, New Guinea, the Philippines and Taiwan. "GOODFELLOWIA, gen. nov. Sturnidarum. Bill like that of Basileornis; base of bill to the nostrils covered with erect feathers, those in front pointing forward, those further back upwards, their tips meeting above the ridge of the culmen. A curious long crest, consisting of decomposed, hair-like feathers, rises from the forehead and covers the middle of the crown. A ring round the eyes, and large patch behind the latter, bare of feathers. Tail very long, graduated, , the lateral pair much less than half the length of the central one. Wing about two-thirds the length of the tail; first primary 20-22 mm., about one-fourth the length of the second, which is only a few millimetres shorter than the third, the latter about equal in length to the fourth and fifth and forming the tip of the wing. Feet strong. Coloration greenish steel-blue and black; rump white. Female like the male, but perhaps a little smaller. GOODFELLOWIA MIRANDA, n. sp. ... The genus is named in honour of its discoverer, Mr. Walter Goodfellow." (Hartert 1903); "Goodfellowia Hartert, 1903, Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl., 14, p. 11. Type, by monotypy, Goodfellowia miranda Hartert." (Amadon in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 116).
miranda
L. mirandus wonderful, strange < mirari to wonder at < mirus extraordinary.
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)