Indochinese Blue Flycatcher
Indochinese Blue Flycatcher
Here the details of the Indochinese Blue Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Siphia sumatrensis Cat.BirdsBrit.Mus. 4 p.442,451
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cyornis
Taxonomy Code: tibfly4
Type Locality: Sumatra. Type of Malacca make, fide Robinson and Kinnear 1928, Novit. Zool., 34, p. 238.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1879
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CYORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher C. rubeculoides) Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "The following species I separate by the appellation Cyornis, Nobis: having the bill less compressed, the tarsi shorter and together with the toes more feeble, and altogether partaking more of the Flycatcher form; they also have not the brilliant cœrulean spot on the sides of the neck conspicuous in the foregoing group [Chaitaris]. 1. C. rubeculoides; Phœnicura rubeculoides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35; Chaitaris brevipes, Hodgson. Himalaya ... 2. C. banyumas; Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield; M. cantatrix, Temminck; M. aurea? Lev., which name would hold precedence; M. rubecula, Swainson, Nat. Libr., the female. Southern India and Malay countries. ... 3. C. Tickelliae, Nobis; M. hyacintha, Tem., apud Tickell, J. A. S. II. 574. ... Inhabits Central India.† ... † Add 4. C. unicolor, Nobis." (Blyth 1843); "Cyornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 940. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds Brit. Mus., p. 53), Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 355).
Var. Cynornis, Cyanornis.
Synon. Addoeca, Olcyornis, Rhinomyias, Rileyornis, Schwaneria.
sumatrae / sumatrana / sumatranum / sumatranus / sumatrensis
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia < Sanskrit Samudra sea (a name subsequently mangled by European travellers).
● ex “Malacca Partridge” of Latham 1823 (syn. Caloperdix oculeus).
● Perhaps the “Polo Condor Gull” of Latham 1801 (Sterna).
● Erroneous TL. Sumatra (= Celebes / Sulawesi) (Tanygnathus).
SUBSPECIES
Indochinese Blue Flycatcher (indochina)
SCI Name: Cyornis sumatrensis indochina
indochina / indochinae / indochinense / indochinensis
Indochina.
Indochinese Blue Flycatcher (sumatrensis)
SCI Name: Cyornis sumatrensis sumatrensis
sumatrae / sumatrana / sumatranum / sumatranus / sumatrensis
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia < Sanskrit Samudra sea (a name subsequently mangled by European travellers).
● ex “Malacca Partridge” of Latham 1823 (syn. Caloperdix oculeus).
● Perhaps the “Polo Condor Gull” of Latham 1801 (Sterna).
● Erroneous TL. Sumatra (= Celebes / Sulawesi) (Tanygnathus).
Indochinese Blue Flycatcher (lamprus)
SCI Name: Cyornis sumatrensis lamprus
lamprus
Gr. λαμπρος lampros radiant, glittering, shining, brilliant, magnificent.
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)