Forest Woodhoopoe
Forest Woodhoopoe
Here the details of the Forest Woodhoopoe named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Irrisor castaneiceps Ibis p.414
Taxonomy: Bucerotiformes / Phoeniculidae / Phoeniculus
Taxonomy Code: forwoo1
Type Locality: Fanti, Gold Coast.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1871
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PHOENICULUS
(Phoeniculidae; Ϯ Green Wood-hoopoe P. purpureus) Dim. < Gr. φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos crimson, red (in allusion to the thin red bill); "RODZAY 1. (30.) ZJAWKA. PHOENICULUS. Dziób długi, sczupty, łukowaty, z góry i zę spodu zaokrąglony, z boków ściśniony, ostro kończysty. ... n.p. Upupa erythrorhynchos. LATH. Známy jch dwa gatunki. Jeden z nich żyie w południowéy Azyi, a drugi w Afryce. ... Phoeniculus unimaculatus. n. ..."Nectarinia erythrorhynchos (Upupa erythrorhynchos LATH.) e Guinea." ... Phoeniculus notatus. n. ... "Guepier à queue etagée (Upupa erythrorhynchos) d'Asie."" (Jarocki 1821); "Phoeniculus Jarocki, Zoologia, 2, 1821, p. 63. Type, by monotypy, Upupa erythrorhynchus Latham." (Peters 1945, V, 250).
Synon. Irrisor.
castaneiceps
L. castaneus chestnut-coloured < castanea chestnut < Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut; -ceps -headed < caput, capitis head.
SUBSPECIES
Forest Woodhoopoe (Western)
SCI Name: Phoeniculus castaneiceps castaneiceps
castaneiceps
L. castaneus chestnut-coloured < castanea chestnut < Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut; -ceps -headed < caput, capitis head.
Forest Woodhoopoe (Eastern)
SCI Name: Phoeniculus castaneiceps brunneiceps
brunneiceps
Mod. L. brunneus brown < Med. L. brunius brown; L. –ceps -crowned < caput, capitis head.
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)