Keel-billed Motmot / Electron carinatum
WBN 
Keel-billed Motmot
SCI Name:
Protonym: Prionites carinatus Bull.Acad.R.Sci.Brux. 14 pt2 p.108
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Momotidae / Electron
Taxonomy Code: kebmot1
Type Locality: Guatemala.
Author: Du Bus
Publish Year: 1847
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
ELECTRON
(Momotidae; † Broad-billed Motmot E. platyrhynchum) Gr. ηλεκτρον ēlektron amber, electron, alloy of gold and silver; "Crypticus (Lat. Käf.) bl. — Crypticus (Bonaparte, Vogel a. Bras.: Electron, N." (Gistel 1848); "Electron Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Thierreichs für höhere Schulen, p. VIII. New name for Crypticus Bonaparte, i.e. Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Crypticus Latreille, 1817 (Coleoptera)." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Blectron.
Synon. Crypticus, Prionirhynchus, Prionornis.
carinata / carinatum / carinatus
L. carinatus keeled, ridged < carina keel.
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)
