Yungas Manakin
Yungas Manakin
Here the details of the Yungas Manakin named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chiroxiphia pareola boliviana Bull.Am.Mus.Nat.Hist. 2 p.87
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pipridae / Chiroxiphia
Taxonomy Code: yunman1
Type Locality: Yungas, Bolivia; restricted to Apolo, La Paz (D. W. S.).
Author: Allen, JA
Publish Year: 1889
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHIROXIPHIA
(Pipridae; Ϯ Blue Manakin C. caudata) Gr. χειρ kheir, χειρος kheiros hand; ξιφος xiphos sword (cf. dim. ξιφιδιον xiphidion dagger; the ξιφιον xiphion of Cabanis 1847 is, in fact, the corn-flag or gladiolus); "Gen. Chiroxiphia n. gen. (χειρ, Hand; ξιφιον, gerader Degen.) Hauptunterschiede von Pipra sind: Zugespitzte, stark verengte Handschwingen, stärker entwickelte Armschwingen und verlängerte zugespitzte mittlere Schwanzfedern. Hierher gehören: 1. Ch. caudata. Pipra caudata Gm. Lath. 2. Ch. ignicapilla. Pipra ignicapilla Wagl. 3. Ch. pareola. Pipra pareola Lin. 4. Ch. militaris. Pipra militaris Shaw. 5. Ch. oxyura. Pipra oxyura v. Olf. " (Cabanis 1847); "Chiroxiphia Cabanis, 1847, Archiv f. Naturg., 13 (1), p. 235. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 55), Pipra caudata Shaw and Nodder." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 267).
Var. Cheiroxiphia, Chiroxyphia, Chiroxiphya.
Synon. Cercophaena, Chiroprion.
boliviae / boliviana / bolivianum / bolivianus / boliviensis
Bolivia (named after Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) "The Liberator", Venezuelan revolutionary, who helped to expel the Spaniards from their South American empire).
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)