Broad-billed Flycatcher
Broad-billed Flycatcher
Here the details of the Broad-billed Flycatcher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Platyrhynchos ruficollis Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 27 p.13
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Myiagra
Taxonomy Code: brbfly1
Type Locality: 'Nouvelle Hollande''; error: Timor, fide Mathews, 1921, Birds Australia, 9, p. 54.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1818
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MYIAGRA
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Leaden Flycatcher M. rubecula) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; αγρευω agreuō to catch (cf. μυιαγρος muiagros fly-catcher; myth. Myiagros, the Fly-catcher, an Elean god invoked against flies); "Genus. MYIÄGRA*. Rostrum rectum, subbreve, depressum, basi latum, multo latius quam altum; mandibula superiore emarginata; naribus basalibus, ovalibus, setis plumulisque fere obtectis; rictu vibrissis fortibus hirsuto. Alæ mediocres subrotundatæ; remige prima brevi, secunda duplo fere longiore, tertia quarta et quinta fere æqualibus longissimis. Cauda mediocris, lata, æqualis aut interdum subfurcata. Pedes graciles, mediocres; acrotarsiis scutellatis, scutorum suturis vix decernendis. ... 1. RUBECULOIDES. ... 2. PLUMBEA. ... 3. MACROPTERA. ... Mr. Caley informs us that the boys of the colony used to call it Winter, the reason of which he does not give. ... *Mυια musca, and αγρευω venor." (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myiagra Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 250. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Grau, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 32), Myiagra rubeculoides Vigors and Horsfield = Todus rubecula Latham." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 516).
Synon. Lophomyiagra, Mastersornis, Piezorhynchus, Platygnathus, Seisura, Submyiagra.
ruficollis
Mod. L. ruficollis red-necked, rufous-necked < L. rufus red, ruddy, rufous; Mod. L. -collis -necked, -throated < L. collum neck.
● ex “Black-bellied Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euneornis campestris).
● ex “Pica flores pecho de cañela” and “Pica flores pecho de topacio” of de Azara 1802-1805, nos. 290, 291 (syn. Hylocharis chrysura).
● ex "Cola aguda cola de canela obscura" of de Azara, no. 240 (syn. Phacellodomus sibilatrix).
● ex “Red-necked Grebe” of Latham 1785 (syn. Podiceps grisegena).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Pyrrhulagra violacea).
● ex “Fringilla ruficollis” of Lichtenstein MS (syn. Sporophila ruficollis).
SUBSPECIES
Broad-billed Flycatcher (ruficollis)
SCI Name: Myiagra ruficollis ruficollis
ruficollis
Mod. L. ruficollis red-necked, rufous-necked < L. rufus red, ruddy, rufous; Mod. L. -collis -necked, -throated < L. collum neck.
● ex “Black-bellied Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Aramides cajanea).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euneornis campestris).
● ex “Pica flores pecho de cañela” and “Pica flores pecho de topacio” of de Azara 1802-1805, nos. 290, 291 (syn. Hylocharis chrysura).
● ex "Cola aguda cola de canela obscura" of de Azara, no. 240 (syn. Phacellodomus sibilatrix).
● ex “Red-necked Grebe” of Latham 1785 (syn. Podiceps grisegena).
● ex “Rufous-throated Tanager” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Pyrrhulagra violacea).
● ex “Fringilla ruficollis” of Lichtenstein MS (syn. Sporophila ruficollis).
Broad-billed Flycatcher (fulviventris)
SCI Name: Myiagra ruficollis fulviventris
fulviventer / fulviventre / fulviventris
L. fulvus tawny; venter, ventris belly.
Broad-billed Flycatcher (mimikae)
SCI Name: Myiagra ruficollis mimikae
mimika / mimikae
Mimika River, southern New Guinea.
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)