Tepui Elaenia
Tepui Elaenia
Here the details of the Tepui Elaenia named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Elainea olivina Ibis p.446
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Elaenia
Taxonomy Code: sieela2
Type Locality: Mt. Roraima, 3,500-6,000 ft., British Guiana [= Venezuela].
Author: Salvin & Godman
Publish Year: 1884
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ELAENIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Elaenia E. flavogaster) Gr. ελαινεος elaineos of olive-oil, oleaginous < ελαια elaia olive; "Elænia n. g. 6) Musc. pagana Licht.; brevirostris, — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max; — Hylophilus cinerascens ejusd. Numerosæ americanæ, transitum ad Tyrannides præbentes; Fringillis subsimiles. ... 6) Rostrum crassiusculum, breve, basi dilatatum, altitudine latius; carina dorsali subacuta, sutura recta. Membrana narium plumulis tecta. Vibrissæ tenues. Alæ mediocres vel sub-breves, rotundatæ, remigib. 3-5 reliqvis longioribus. Pedes mediocres, digitis brevibus, subliberis. Olivaceæ-cinerascentes; sæpe subtus, interdum vertice flavæ. — Eλαινιος, oleagineus." (Sundevall 1836); "Elaenia Sundevall, 1836, Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 1835, p. 89. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flavogaster Thunberg." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 26-27).
Var. Elaenea, Elainea, Elainia, Eloenia, Elana, Elania.
olivina / olivinus
Mod. L. olivinus olivine, olive < L. oliva olive.
● "Cinerascenti-olivacea ... loris, oculorum ambitu, gutture et abdomine medio flavido indutis" (P. Sclater 1864); ex "Tanagra olivina" of Natterer MS (based on a sub-adult bird) (subsp. Schistochlamys melanopis).
SUBSPECIES
Tepui Elaenia (davidwillardi)
SCI Name: Elaenia olivina davidwillardi
davidwillardi
Dr David Ela Willard (b. 1946) US ornithologist, collector (subsp. Elaenia olivina).
Tepui Elaenia (olivina)
SCI Name: Elaenia olivina olivina
olivina / olivinus
Mod. L. olivinus olivine, olive < L. oliva olive.
● "Cinerascenti-olivacea ... loris, oculorum ambitu, gutture et abdomine medio flavido indutis" (P. Sclater 1864); ex "Tanagra olivina" of Natterer MS (based on a sub-adult bird) (subsp. Schistochlamys melanopis).
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)