Southern Carmine Bee-eater

Southern Carmine Bee-eater / Merops nubicoides

Southern Carmine Bee-eater

Here the details of the Southern Carmine Bee-eater named bird below:

SCI Name:  Merops nubicoides
Protonym:  Merops nubicoides Rev.Zool. 9 p.243
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Meropidae /
Taxonomy Code:  scbeat1
Type Locality:  Port Natal, error = Ouri River, Transvaal.
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Publish Year:  1846
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis  bee-eater  < Gr. μεροψ merops  bee-eater; "57. MEROPS.  Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum.  Lingua apice laciniata.  Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.

nubicoides
Specific name Merops nubicus J. Gmelin, 1788; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "MEROPS NUBICOIDES.  ...  Habit. Port-Natalem.   M. Nubico proximus, differt gula rosacea, secundariis brevioribus, rectricibus mediis longioribus, rostro crassiore." (des Murs & Pucheran 1846) (Merops).