Philippine Spinetailed Swift
Philippine Spinetailed Swift
Here the details of the Philippine Spinetailed Swift named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chaetura picina Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1878) (1878), Pt4 p.944 pl.59
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Apodidae / Mearnsia
Taxonomy Code: phinee1
Type Locality: Zamboanga, Mindanao.
Author: Tweeddale
Publish Year: 1879
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
MEARNSIA
(Apodidae; Ϯ Philippine Spine-tail Swift M. picina) Lt.-Col. Edgar Alexander Mearns (1858-1916) US Army 1883-1909, surgeon, collector in Mexico 1892-1894, the Philippines 1903-1907, and tropical Africa 1909-1911. "dd. Size smaller (wing less than 170 mm., the wing relatively very long); tenth (outermost) primary distinctly shorter than ninth; distance from tips of longest secondaries to tip of longest primary much more than two-thirds the total length of wing; tail only one-sixth as long as wing, the longest coverts reaching nearly to its tip; no white on under tail-coverts or flanks. Mearnsia (extralimital).e ... eNew genus. Dedicated to Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. A., not only in recognition of his valuable services to ornithology, but also as a token of the author's high esteem. (Type, Chætura picina Tweeddale.)" (Ridgway 1911).
Synon. Papuanapus.
picina / picinus
L. picinus pitch-black < pix, picis pitch.
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)