Green Shrike-Vireo
Green Shrike-Vireo
Here the details of the Green Shrike-Vireo named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Vireolanius pulchellus Ibis p.12
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Vireonidae / Vireolanius
Taxonomy Code: grsvir1
Type Locality: Guatemala.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1859
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
VIREOLANIUS
(Vireonidae; Ϯ Chestnut-sided Shrike-vireo V. melitophrys) Compound of genera Vireo Vieillot, 1808, vireo, and Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike; "Plumage loose-webbed, silky ... Bill rather stout, hooked" (Van Tyne & Berger 1965); "*710. Vireolanius, Dubus. (Cycloris, p. Caban.) Mexico. 1. *V. melitophrys, Dubus. (Lanius chrysophrys, Licht.) Esq. Orn. 1850. t. 26. Mus. Brux. ex Berol. ex Mexic." (Bonaparte 1850); "Vireolanius Bonaparte (ex Du Bus MS), 1851?, Consp. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 330. Type, by monotypy, Vireolanius melitophrys Bonaparte." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 108).
Synon. Smaragdolanius.
pulchella / pulchellum / pulchellus
L. pulchellus very pretty, beautiful little < dim. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Grimpereau à longue queue du Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Cinnyris).
SUBSPECIES
Green Shrike-Vireo (ramosi)
SCI Name: Vireolanius pulchellus ramosi
ramosi
• Prof. Norberto V. de Ramos (1902-1987) Filipino lawyer (Paul Scofield in litt.) (syn. Chryosocolaptes haematribon).
• Jacinto Ramos (fl. 1956) Filipino collector (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Terpsiphone cinnamomea unirufa).
• Dr. Mario Alberto Ramos Olmos (1949-2006) Mexican ornithologist, conservationist (Andy Kratter in litt.) (subsp. Vireolanius pulchellus).
Green Shrike-Vireo (pulchellus)
SCI Name: Vireolanius pulchellus pulchellus
pulchella / pulchellum / pulchellus
L. pulchellus very pretty, beautiful little < dim. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Grimpereau à longue queue du Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Cinnyris).
Green Shrike-Vireo (verticalis)
SCI Name: Vireolanius pulchellus verticalis
verticalis
Late L. verticalis crowned, of the head < L. vertex, verticis crown of the head.
● ex “Ash-bellied Creeper” of Latham 1787 (Cyanomitra).
Green Shrike-Vireo (viridiceps)
SCI Name: Vireolanius pulchellus viridiceps
viridiceps
L. viridis green < virere to be green; -ceps -crowned < caput, capitis head.
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)