Three-toed Jacamar
Three-toed Jacamar
Here the details of the Three-toed Jacamar named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Galbula tridactyla Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 16 p.445
Taxonomy: Galbuliformes / Galbulidae / Jacamaralcyon
Taxonomy Code: thtjac1
Type Locality: Brazil; Pinto, op. cit., suggests Sao Paulo as restricted type locality.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1817
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
JACAMARALCYON
(Galbulidae; Ϯ Three-toed Jacamar J. tridactyla) French name “Jacamaralcion” given to the Three-toed Jacamar by Levaillant 1807, pl. 50 < French Jacamar jacamar; L. alcyon, alcyonis kingfisher < Gr. αλκυων alkuōn, αλκυονος alkuonos kingfisher (here referring to the three-toed Alcedo tridactylus Pallas, 1769 (= Ceyx erithaca)); "III.e Sous-genre. JACAMARALCYON; Jacamaralcyon. Bec droit, grêle, alongé; deux doigts en avant, un seul derrière. 7. JACAMARALCYON BRÉSILIEN; Jacamaralcyon brasiliensis: Galbula tridactyla, Vieill.; Levaill., pl. 50; Alcyon tridactyla, Spix, pl. 57, fig. 2. ... Habite la Guiane." (Lesson 1830); "Jacamaralcyon Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 3, 1830, p. 235. Type, by monotypy, Jacamaralcyon brasiliensis Lesson = Galbula tridactyla Vieillot." (Peters 1948, VI, 5).
Var. Jacamalcyon, Jacamaralcion.
Synon. Alcyon, Cauax, Hylaerops.
tridactyla
Gr. τριδακτυλος tridaktulos three-toed < τρι- tri- three- < τρεις treis, τρια tria three; δακτυλος daktulos toe.
● ex “Jacamaralcion” of Levaillant 1807 (Jacamaralcyon).
● "69. LARUS. ... tridactylus. 1. L. albicans dorso canescente, rectricibus excepto extimo nigris, pedibus tridactylis. Larus hybernus. Alb. av. 2. p: 80. t. 87. Larus cinereus. Bell. av. . . Raj. av. 128. n. 4. Habitat in Europa septentrionali." (Linnaeus 1758) (Rissa).
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)