Rufescent White-eye
Rufescent White-eye
Here the details of the Rufescent White-eye named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tephras stalkeri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 25 p.90
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Zosteropidae / Tephrozosterops
Taxonomy Code: rufwhe1
Type Locality: Gunung Karopi, central Ceram.
Author: Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year: 1910
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TEPHROZOSTEROPS
(Zosteropidae; Ϯ Bicoloured White-eye T. stalkeri) Portmanteau of genera Tephras Hartlaub, 1868, white-eye, and Zosterops Vigors & Horsfield, 1826, white-eye; "D. Tephrozosterops genus novum. In struktureller Hinsicht mit Oreosterops übereinstimmend, aber Färbung infolge gänzlichen Lipochrommangels sehr abweichend: Obersite düster rostfarben, Unterseite weiß, an Brust, Flanken, Unterschwanzdecken rostfarben verwachsen. Typus: Tephras stalkeri Og.-Grant." (Stresemann 1931); "Tephrozosterops Stresemann, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17, p. 234. Type, by monotypy [= by original designation], Tephras stalkeri Ogilvie-Grant." (Mayr in Peters 1967, XII, 321).
stalkeri
Wilfred Stalker (1879-1910) Australian adventurer, collector in the Moluccas, New Guinea, and Australia, drowned during the BOU expedition to New Guinea (syn. Coracina papuensis hypoleuca, Gymnophaps, syn. Ocyphaps lophotes, syn. Platalea regia, syn. Recurvirostra novaehollandiae, syn. Sphecotheres flaviventris, syn. Symposiachrus trivirgatus gouldii, Tephrozosterops, Zosterops).
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)