Marañon Crescentchest

Marañon Crescentchest / Melanopareia maranonica

Marañon Crescentchest

Here the details of the Marañon Crescentchest named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melanopareia maranonica
Protonym:  Melanopareia maranonicus Am.Mus.Novit. no.123 p.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Melanopareiidae /
Taxonomy Code:  marcre1
Type Locality:  Perico, Rio Chinchipe, Peru.
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Publish Year:  1924
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DEFINITIONS

MELANOPAREIA
(Melanopareiidae; Ϯ Olive-crowned Crescentchest M. maximiliani) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; παρηιον parēion  cheek; "LXXXII. Melanopareia RCHB. Nat. Syst. d. Vögel t. suppl. — Schnabel etwas stärker, ein wenig gekrümmt, Schwanz stark abgerundet, fast gestutzt. Kleid eigenthümlich: Wangen und Gurgelquerband schwarz, Schulterfederchen weiß, Beine fleischfarben gelblich.— Andeutung der Gattung Thamnophilus, nach des Beobachters D'ORBIGNY eigener Bemerkung.    367. M. Maximiliani (Synall. — D'ORBG. voy. 247. S. torquata Synops. et pl. 15. 1.) RCHB. t. DXXIII. 3619.   ...   368. M. torquata (Synall. —us M. N.-W. Beitr. III. 697.) RCHB. t. DXXIII. 3620." (Reichenbach 1853); "Melanopareia Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Orn., cont. x, 1853, Scansoriae A. Sittinae, p. 146, 164. Type, by subsequent designation, Synallaxis maximiliani d'Orbigny (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 27)." (Peters 1951, VII, 281).
Synon. Rhoporchilis.

maranonica / smaranonicum / maranonicus
Río Marañón, Peru. The Tupí originally applied the name Maranon to the Rio Parana in Brazil; it was later used of the main Amazon, and is now the name of the upper or Peruvian reaches of that river.