Violet-headed Hummingbird
Violet-headed Hummingbird
Here the details of the Violet-headed Hummingbird named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Guimeti Rev.Zool. 6 p.72
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Klais
Taxonomy Code: vihhum1
Type Locality: No locality.
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
KLAIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Violet-headed Hummingbird K. guimeti) Kleis, daughter of Lesbian lyric poetess Sappho (the mother of Sappho was also called Kleis); "β. Klais Guimeti (Tr. — BOURC. 1443 [sic]) RCHB. — Columb. Venezuela: Caracas, Veragua. " (Reichenbach 1854); "Basilinna β Klais Reichenbach, Journ. f. Orn., 1, 1854, Beil zu Extrah., p. 13. Type, by monotypy, Trochilus guimeti Bourcier." (Peters 1945, V, 29).
Var. Clais.
Synon. Guimetia.
guimeti
Jean Baptiste Guimet (1795-1871) French industrial chemist who devised (1826) a process to produce synthetic ultramarine (Bleu-Guimet or Outremer-Guimet) (Klais).
SUBSPECIES
Violet-headed Hummingbird (merrittii)
SCI Name: Klais guimeti merrittii
merrittii
Dr Joseph King Merritt (1824-1882) US gold-mine owner in Veraguas, Panama, ethnologist, collector (Martin Schneider in litt.) (subsp. Klais guimeti).
Violet-headed Hummingbird (guimeti)
SCI Name: Klais guimeti guimeti
guimeti
Jean Baptiste Guimet (1795-1871) French industrial chemist who devised (1826) a process to produce synthetic ultramarine (Bleu-Guimet or Outremer-Guimet) (Klais).
Violet-headed Hummingbird (pallidiventris)
SCI Name: Klais guimeti pallidiventris
pallidiventer / pallidiventris
L. pallidus pale < pallere to be pale; venter, ventris belly.
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)