Red-tailed Comet
Red-tailed Comet
Here the details of the Red-tailed Comet named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus sparganurus Gen.Zool.[Shaw] 8 pt1 p.291 pl.39
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Sappho
Taxonomy Code: retcom1
Type Locality: 'Peru'' = Bolivia.
Author: Shaw
Publish Year: 1812
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SAPPHO
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Red-tailed Comet S. sparganurus) Sappho (fl. 600BC) lyric poetess of Lesbos who gathered around her a group of friends, all of her own sex, in a cult organisation devoted to Aphrodite. Reichenbach's 1849, plate XL, labelled Trochilinae. Mellisuginae. Phaetorninae, highlights the long forked tail of these hummingbirds. "* Sappho sparganura (Tr. — us SHAW 1811.) RCHB. syst. — Bolivia. * — phaon (Tr. — GOULD 1847.) RCHB. — Peru." (Reichenbach 1854); "Sappho Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. xl. Generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus sparganurus Shaw. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22.)" (Peters 1945, V, 117).
Var. Sapho.
Synon. Cometes, Sparganura.
sparganura / sparganurus
Gr. σπαργανον sparganon band, swaddling cloth < σπαργω spargō to swathe (cf. σπαργαω spargaō to abound); -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
SUBSPECIES
Red-tailed Comet (sparganurus)
SCI Name: Sappho sparganurus sparganurus
sparganura / sparganurus
Gr. σπαργανον sparganon band, swaddling cloth < σπαργω spargō to swathe (cf. σπαργαω spargaō to abound); -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
Red-tailed Comet (sapho)
SCI Name: Sappho sparganurus sapho
sapho
Sappho (fl. 600 BC) lyric poetess of Lesbos who gathered around her a group of friends, all of her own sex, in a cult organisation devoted to Aphrodite (subsp. Sappho sparganurus).
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)