White-tailed Emerald
White-tailed Emerald
Here the details of the White-tailed Emerald named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus (Thaumatias?) chionura Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1850) (1850), Pt18 no.211 p.162
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Elvira
Taxonomy Code: whteme1
Type Locality: David, 2000-3000 feet, Chiriquf, Panama
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1851
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ELVIRA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ White-tailed Emerald E. chionura) Probably after Elvira, mistress of Pizarro in Sheridan's 1799 tragedy "Pizarro" (a literary allusion to a South American maiden) (cf. (1) Elvire, “the name by which the poet Lamartine idealised Mme. Julie Charles ... with whom he was at one time deeply in love” (Harvey & Heseltine 1959): (2) Elvira, a maiden, one of many, wronged by Don Giovanni (Mozart 1787)); "Genre LEUCOCHLORIS ... aa. Rectrices externes à intermédiaires blanches sur la moyenne partie basilaire de leur longueur (S.-g. Elvira). Chianura [sic], GOULD. Costa-Rica. Class. de M. Gould. Thaumantias" (Mulsant et al. 1866); "Elvira Mulsant and J. and E. Verreaux, Mém. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 12, 1866, p. 176. (P. 32 of separately paged reprint.) Type, by monotypy, Trochilus (Thaumatias) chionura Gould." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 77).
Synon. Lawrencius.
chionura / chionurus
Gr. χιων khiōn, χιονος khionos snow; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
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)