Forty-spotted Pardalote
Forty-spotted Pardalote
Here the details of the Forty-spotted Pardalote named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pardalotus quadragintus Syn.BirdsAustr. pt4 pl.[7] fig.1,text
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pardalotidae / Pardalotus
Taxonomy Code: fospar1
Type Locality: Van Diemen''s Land [= Tasmania]. Also described 1838, Proc Zool. Soc London, 5 (1837), p. 148.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1838
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
PARDALOTUS
(Pardalotidae; Ϯ Spotted Pardalote P. punctatus) French Pardalote pardalote < Gr. παρδαλωτος pardalōtos spotted like a leopard < παρδαλος pardalos leopard (cf. "Παρδαλωτος, spotted like a panther. I think the original name was pardalonotus, παρδαλος, spotted, νωτον, back: a very applicable designation" (Ashmolean 1836)); "PARDALOTE, Pardalotus. Pipra, Lath. Bec très-court, un peu robuste, à base dilatée sur les bords, entier, conoïde, épais à la pointe; mandibule supérieure un peu arquée; l'inférieure convexe en dessous. Esp. Pipra punctata, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Pardalotus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 31. Type, by monotypy, Pipra punctata Shaw and Nodder." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 202).
Var. Paradalotus, Pardalotis, Pardolotus.
Synon. Dipardalotus, Nesopardalotus, Pardalotinus, Spizites.
pardalotus
Gr. παρδαλωτος pardalōtos spotted like a leopard < παρδαλος pardalos leopard.
● ex “Grimpar Flambé” of Levaillant 1807 (Xiphorhynchus).
quadraginta / quadragintus
L. quadraginta forty < quattuor four.
● “This is the Forty-spot of the colonists of Van Diemen’s Land, so called from the numerous white spots with which it is adorned” (Gould 1838) (Pardalotus).
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)