Black-headed Bee-eater

Black-headed Bee-eater / Merops breweri

Black-headed Bee-eater

Here the details of the Black-headed Bee-eater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Merops breweri
Protonym:  Meropogon Breweri Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 11 p.34
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Meropidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bhbeat1
Type Locality:  Ogobai River, Gaboon.
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Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis  bee-eater  < Gr. μεροψ merops  bee-eater; "57. MEROPS.  Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum.  Lingua apice laciniata.  Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.

breweri
● Dr Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880) US politician, newspaper editor, oologist (syn. Anas platyrhynchos x Anas strepera, syn. Euphagus cyanocephalus, MeropsSpizella).
● Charles Brewer-Carías (b. 1938) Venezuelan dentist, anthropologist, explorer (subsp. Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer).