Blue-throated Brown Sunbird

SCI Name:  Cyanomitra cyanolaema
Protonym:  N.[ectarinia] cyanolaemus Contrib.Orn.[Jardine] p.154
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Nectariniidae / Cyanomitra
Taxonomy Code:  btbsun2
Type Locality:  Clarence, Fernando Po.
Author:  Jardine & Fraser
Publish Year:  1852
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYANOMITRA
(Nectariniidae; Ϯ Green-headed Sunbird C. verticalis cyanocephala) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue, greenish-blue; μιτρα mitra  head-band, diadem; "CLXII. Cyanomitra RCHB. Nat. Syst. t. suppl. — Mittelform zwischen Cinnyris und Anthodiaeta; sie hat von jener die langen Flügel, von dieser das Kleid. Die Brustbüschel sind deutlich. — West-Afrika.   678. C. cyanocephala (Certhia — SHAW VIII. 203.) BONAP. 406. 4.  RCHB. t. DLXXIII. 3905—6.   ...   *679. C. pusilla SWAINS. West.-Afr. 138. RCHB. t. DCXV. = DLXIII.b. 4104.   ...   *680. C. affinis RÜPPEL Abyss. 87. t. 31. f. 1.  RCHB. t. DLXXIII. 3907." (Reichenbach 1853); "Cyanomitra Reichenbach, 1854 [= 1853], Handb. spec. Orn., Icon. Synops. Avium, Scansoriae, p. 291. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 137), Certhia cyanocephala Shaw." (Rand in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 223).
Synon. Adelinus, Elaeocerthia, Haagneria, Leucochloridia.

cyanolaema
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; λαιμος laimos throat.

Cyanolaemus
(Trochilidae; syn. Lampornis † Blue-throated Hummingbird L. clemenciae) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; λαιμος laimos  throat; "The species upon which Cœligena was originally based (Ind. & Synop. gén. Troch., 1832, p. XVIII), included Ornismyia cœligena Lesson, which by tautonomy is the type. Unfortunately Lampropygia Reich. has been used for this bird and its allies and Cœligena for O. clemenciæ.  Replacing Reichenbach's name with Cœligena, we leave O. clemenciæ without a generic appellation and I propose Cyanolæmus,1  type Ornismyia clemenciæ Lesson.   ...  1 κυανεος blue, λαιμος throat." (Stone 1907); "Cyanolaemus Stone, Auk, 24, 1907, p. 196, 197.  New name to replace Coeligena Lesson not applicable.  Type, by original designation, Ornismyia clemenciae Lesson." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 80).
Var. Cyanolaema.

SUBSPECIES

Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (magnirostrata)
SCI Name: Cyanomitra cyanolaema magnirostrata
magnirostrata / magnirostratus
L. magnus  great; rostratus  beaked  < rostrum  beak.

Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (octaviae)
SCI Name: Cyanomitra cyanolaema octaviae
octaviae
Octavia Amadon née Gardella (1911-2006) wife of US ornithologist Dean Amadon (subsp. Cyanomitra cyanolaema).

Blue-throated Brown Sunbird (cyanolaema)
SCI Name: Cyanomitra cyanolaema cyanolaema
cyanolaema
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; λαιμος laimos throat.