Nimba Flycatcher / Melaenornis annamarulae
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Nimba Flycatcher
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Protonym: Melaenornis annamarulae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 90 p.146
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Melaenornis
Taxonomy Code: nimfly1
Type Locality: Grassfield, Mt. Nimba, Liberia, lat. 7° 30'' N., long. 8° 35'' W.; altitude ca. 550 meters.
Author: Forbes-Watson
Publish Year: 1970
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "MELAENORNIS, n. Melasoma a, Swains. M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n. Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29. ... a Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).
Var. Melaehornis, Meloenornis.
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.
annamarulae
Anna Marula Forbes-Watson née Kofsky (1941-2006) wife of British zoologist Alexander D. Forbes-Watson (Melaenornis).
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)
