Lance-tailed Manakin

SCI Name:  Chiroxiphia lanceolata
Protonym:  Pipra lanceolata Isis 23 col. 931
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pipridae / Chiroxiphia
Taxonomy Code:  latman1
Type Locality:  Guiana sive Cajenna; error, region of Cerro Turumiquire, Sucre, Venezuela, proposed by Phelps and Phelps, Jr., 1950, Bol. Soc. Venezolana Cienc. Nat., 12(75), p. 137.
Author:  Wagler
Publish Year:  1830
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHIROXIPHIA
(Pipridae; Ϯ Blue Manakin C. caudata) Gr. χειρ kheir, χειρος kheiros  hand; ξιφος xiphos  sword (cf. dim. ξιφιδιον xiphidion  dagger; the ξιφιον xiphion of Cabanis 1847 is, in fact, the corn-flag or gladiolus); "Gen. Chiroxiphia  n. gen. (χειρ, Hand; ξιφιον, gerader Degen.)  Hauptunterschiede von Pipra sind: Zugespitzte, stark verengte Handschwingen, stärker entwickelte Armschwingen und verlängerte zugespitzte mittlere Schwanzfedern.  Hierher gehören:  1. Ch. caudata.  Pipra caudata Gm. Lath.    2. Ch. ignicapilla.  Pipra ignicapilla Wagl.    3. Ch. pareola.  Pipra pareola Lin.    4. Ch. militaris.  Pipra militaris Shaw.    5. Ch. oxyura.  Pipra oxyura v. Olf. " (Cabanis 1847); "Chiroxiphia Cabanis, 1847, Archiv f. Naturg., 13 (1), p. 235. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 55), Pipra caudata Shaw and Nodder." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 267).
Var. Cheiroxiphia, Chiroxyphia, Chiroxiphya.
Synon. Cercophaena, Chiroprion.

lanceolata / lanceolatus
L. lanceolatus  lanceolate, spear-shaped  < lancea  lance (see, e.g., Plectorhyncha).