Bare-eyed Myna
Bare-eyed Myna
Here the details of the Bare-eyed Myna named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Charitornis albertinae Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 3 p.1 pl.8
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Streptocitta
Taxonomy Code: baemyn1
Type Locality: Sula Islands.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1865
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
STREPTOCITTA
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Southern White-necked Myna S. albicollis) Gr. στρεπτος streptos collar, neck-chain < στρεφω strephō to twist; κιττα kitta magpie; the birds of this genus are sometimes known as magpie mynas because of their long tails and pied plumage; "*823. Streptocitta, Bp. (Pica, p. Gr. - Garrula, p. Temm.) Oceania. 1. CORVUS caledonicus! Labillardière, nec Gm. (Pica albicollis, Vieill.- Garrula torquata, Wagl.) Voy. Entrecast. Atl. t. 39. ex Celebes. Nigro-cyanea: collo undique, pectoreque late, albis." (Bonaparte 1850); "Streptocitta Bonaparte, 1851, Consp. Av., 1 (1850), p. 382. Type, by monotypy, Corvus caledonicus Latham = Pica albicollis Vieillot." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 117).
Synon. Charitornis.
albertina / albertinae / albertinum
● Albertine Rift Valley. The ecologically important Albertine Rift runs from Lake Albert southwards to Lake Tanganyika, being named after Lake Albert, itself named after Albert Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (Glaucidium).
● Albertine Catharina Petronella Pfeiffer (1829-1894) stepdaughter of Dutch zoologist Prof. Theodorus van Lidth de Jeude, and second wife of German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel (Streptocitta).
● Albertina Bertha Josepha Wilhelmina Carolina Theodora Emma Gräfin Marschall auf Burgholzhausen und Tromsdorf (1846-1910) daughter of Austrian zoologist August Friedrich Graf Marschall auf Burgholzhausen und Tromsdorf (subsp. Tangara gyrola).
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)