Black-billed Treehunter

Black-billed Treehunter / Thripadectes melanorhynchus

Black-billed Treehunter

Here the details of the Black-billed Treehunter named bird below:

SCI Name:  Thripadectes melanorhynchus
Protonym:  Anabates melanorhynchus Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.295
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blbtre1
Type Locality:  Peru = forest region of Peru between lat. 10° and lat. 12° S., ex Fauna Per., Aves, 1846, p. 241.
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Publish Year:  1844
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DEFINITIONS

THRIPADECTES
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Flammulated Treehunter T. flammulatus) Gr. θριψ thrips, θριπος thripos woodworm; δηκτης dēktēs biter < δακνω daknō to bite; "Genus THRIPADECTES.  958. THRIPADECTES FLAMMULATUS.  Anabates flammulatus, Eyton, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 131; Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855, p. 141. Thripadectes flammulatus, Sclater, MS." (P. Sclater 1862); "Thripadectes Sclater, Cat. Am. Bds., 1862, p. 157. Type, by monotypy, Anabates flammulatus Eyton." (Peters 1951, VII, 141).
Synon. Rhopoctites.

melanorhyncha / melanorhynchos / melanorhynchus
Late Med. L. melanorhynchos  black-billed  < Gr. μελας melas, μελανος  melanos  black; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Black-billed Tropic Bird” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Phaethon rubricauda).

SUBSPECIES

Black-billed Treehunter (striaticeps)
SCI Name: Thripadectes melanorhynchus striaticeps
striaticeps
L. striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow; –ceps  -capped  < caput, capitis  head.

Black-billed Treehunter (melanorhynchus)
SCI Name: Thripadectes melanorhynchus melanorhynchus
melanorhyncha / melanorhynchos / melanorhynchus
Late Med. L. melanorhynchos  black-billed  < Gr. μελας melas, μελανος  melanos  black; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Black-billed Tropic Bird” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Phaethon rubricauda).