Himalayan Flameback
Himalayan Flameback
Here the details of the Himalayan Flameback named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Picus Shorii Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.14 p.175
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Picidae / Dinopium
Taxonomy Code: himfla1
Type Locality: Himalayas.
Author: Vigors
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DINOPIUM
(Picidae; Ϯ Common Flame-back D. javanense) Gr. δεινος deinos mighty, huge; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos appearance; "Description de 4 nouvelles espèces d'Oiseaux de l'Ile de Java, observés dans le museum de Mr. Peale à Philadelphie, Turnix javanica, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus, Hirundo longipennis et Sylvia cuneata." (Rafinesque 1814); "Dinopium Rafinesque, Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie, 1814, p. 2 of cover. Type, by monotypy, Dinopium (Picoides) erythronotus Rafinesque, which is based on "le picoïde à dos rouge", Bull. des Sciences de Soc. Philom., Paris, 3, 1803, p. 146 = Picus javanensis Ljungh." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 143).
Var. Dinopicus (Gr. πικος pikos woodpecker).
Synon. Brachypternopicus, Brachypternus, Brahmapicus, Chloropicoides, Chrysonotus, Gauropicoides, Mesospilus, Tiga.
shorii
Hon. Frederick John Shore (1799-1837) British civil servant (East India Company) in India, naturalist (Dinopium).
SUBSPECIES
Himalayan Flameback (shorii)
SCI Name: Dinopium shorii shorii
shorii
Hon. Frederick John Shore (1799-1837) British civil servant (East India Company) in India, naturalist (Dinopium).
Himalayan Flameback (anguste)
SCI Name: Dinopium shorii anguste
angusta / anguste
L. angustus narrow, small, short, restrained, difficult.
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)