Green Hylia
Green Hylia
Here the details of the Green Hylia named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylvia prasina Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 7 p.325
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Macrosphenidae / Hylia
Taxonomy Code: grehyl1
Type Locality: Moonda (= Mondah) River, Western Africa = Gabon.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1855
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HYLIA
(Scotocercidae; Ϯ Green Hylia H. prasina) Gr. ὑληεις hulēeis dwelling in the woods < ὑλη hulē woodland, forest; "Genus HYLIA, nobis. Small, in general appearance sylviform. Bill curved, upper mandible thick or wide on the lateral view, compressed towards the end, carinated, nostril in a large membrane. Wings moderate, first quill spurious, third and fourth longest and nearly equal, tail rather long, legs moderate, tarsus with about four large scales in front, toes slender, claws rather large. Type Sylvia prasina, Cassin. 63. HYLIA PRASINA, (Cassin.) Sylvia prasina, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philada. 1845, p. 325. "Stiphrornis superciliaris, Temm. Mus. Lugd."? This bird is by no manner of means a Stiphrornis, if S. erythrothorax is the type, which appears to be the case, nor is it a Chloropeta of which C. natalensis, Smith, is the type, nor moreover do we know any other genus to which it belongs, and so set up for ourselves as best we may." (Cassin 1859); "Hylia Cassin, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 40. Type, by original designation, Sylvia prasina Cassin." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 221). The Green Hylia and the Tit Hylia Pholidornis were formerly treated in a separate family Hyliidae, a proposal recently resurrected.
prasina
L. prasinus leek-green < Gr. πρασινος prasinos leek-green < πρασον prason leek.
● ex “Verdier de Java” of Brisson 1760 (Erythrura).
SUBSPECIES
Green Hylia (prasina)
SCI Name: Hylia prasina prasina
prasina
L. prasinus leek-green < Gr. πρασινος prasinos leek-green < πρασον prason leek.
● ex “Verdier de Java” of Brisson 1760 (Erythrura).
Green Hylia (poensis)
SCI Name: Hylia prasina poensis
poense / poensis
Fernando Póo or Fernando Pó, Gulf of Guinea / Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (island sighted by Portuguese navigator Fernaõ do Póo in 1470).
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)