Crimson-hooded Myzomela
Crimson-hooded Myzomela
Here the details of the Crimson-hooded Myzomela named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Myzomela kuehni Bull.Br.Orn.Club 13 p.42
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Myzomela
Taxonomy Code: crhmyz1
Type Locality: Wetter Island.
Author: Rothschild
Publish Year: 1903
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MYZOMELA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Scarlet Myzomela M. sanguinolenta) Gr. μυζαω muzaō to suck; μελι meli honey; "This section forms an interesting subdivision of the present group [Meliphagidae], as marking the passage to the Cinnyridæ ... this type of form may be generically characterized as follows, the Mel. cardinalis being the normal species. Genus. MYZOMELA. Rostrum breve, gracile; culmine arcuato, ad basin subcultrato; naribus longitudinalibus, linearibus, perangustis, membrana supra tectis, rostri tertiam partem longitudine æquantibus. Lingua, alæ, pedesque iidem fere ut in Meliphagis veris. Cauda subbrevis, æqualis" (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myzomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 318 [=316]. Type, by original designation, Meliphaga cardinalis Vigors and Horsfield = Certhia sanguinolenta Latham." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 350).
Var. Mysomela.
Synon. Cosmeteira, Melomyza.
kuehni
Heinrich Kühn (1860-1906) German explorer, collector in the East Indies (syn. Aplonis minor, syn. Caprimulgus macrurus schlegelii, syn. Coracina novaehollandiae melanops, subsp. Cyornis hyacinthinus, subsp. Dicaeum celebicum, subsp. Dicrurus densus, syn. Eos rubra, subsp. Erythropitta macklotii, subsp. Gerygone dorsalis, subsp. Hypotaenidia torquata, Myzomela, subsp. Pachycephala griseonota, syn. Tyto alba delicatula, subsp. Xanthotis polygrammus, Zosterops) (see audacis).
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)