Golden-breasted Puffleg / Eriocnemis mosquera
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Golden-breasted Puffleg
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Protonym: Trochilus Mosquera Rev.Zool. 9 p.306
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Eriocnemis
Taxonomy Code: gobpuf1
Type Locality: Pasto, Colombia.
Author: Delattre & Bourcier
Publish Year: 1846
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ERIOCNEMIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Coppery-bellied Puffleg E. cupreoventris) Gr. εριον erion wool; κνημις knēmis, κνημιδος knēmidos boot, legging. Reichenbach's 1849, plate XL, labelled Trochilinae. Mellisuginae. Phaetorninae, clearly shows the fluffy tarsal tufts typical of these hummingbirds; "The sexes are very much alike, and both have the white muff-like decoration on the leg, but it is not so much developed in the female as in the male" (Gould 1861); "Eriocnemis Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. xl. Generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Eriopus simplex Gould = Trochilus cupreo-ventris Fraser (Gould, Monogr. Trochil. pt. 3, 1852, pl. [8] and text)." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 108).
Var. Eriocnemys, Euryocnemis.
Synon. Aline, Derbyomyia, Engyete, Erebenna, Eriona, Eriopus, Luciania, Mosqueria, Nania, Niche, Phemonoe, Pholoe, Threptria, Vestipedes.
mosquera
Gen. Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera y Arboleda (1798-1878) Colombian statesman, Dictator of New Granada 1845-1849, President of Granadine Confederation 1862-1863, President of Colombia 1863-1864, 1866-1867 (Eriocnemis).
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)
