White-gaped Honeyeater

White-gaped Honeyeater / Stomiopera unicolor

White-gaped Honeyeater

Here the details of the White-gaped Honeyeater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Stomiopera unicolor
Protonym:  Ptilotis unicolor Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.117 p.136
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whghon1
Type Locality:  Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.
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Publish Year:  1843
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DEFINITIONS

STOMIOPERA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ White-gaped Honeyeater S. unicolor) Gr. στομιον stomion  bridle-bit, mouth  < dim. στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos mouth; πηρα pēra  wallet, pouch; "XLVIII.  Stomiopera RCHB. s. Nat. Syst. d. Vög. Sppl. — Weicht durch den bedeutend längeren und stärkeren Schnabel, ein häutiges Mundtäschchen für jeden Mundwinkel und Mangel farbiger Ohrbüschel von Ptilotis ab, mit welcher die Gattung übrigens übereinstimmt, aber an deren Ende offenbar die Gattung Philedon repräsentirt. — Ich bildete den Namen aus το στομιον, Mund, und ἡ πηρα, Tasche.   *250. St. unicolor (Ptilotis — GOULD) RCHB. — t. CCCCLXXI. 3355—56.   ...   *251. St. ocularis (Glyciphila GOULD) RCHB. — t. CCCCLXXIX. 3399—3400." (Reichenbach 1852); "Stomiopera Reichenbach, 1852, Handb. spec. Orn., abth. 2, Meropinae, continuatio no. IX, p. 109. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgen. Birds, p. 24), Ptilotis unicolor Gould." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 365).
Var. Stomiopara, Stomioptera.
Synon. Broadbentia.

unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris  plain, uniform, of one colour  < uni-  single-  < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).