Orange Minivet / Pericrocotus flammeus
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Orange Minivet
SCI Name:
Protonym: Muscicapa flammea IndischeZool. p.25 pl.15
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Pericrocotus
Taxonomy Code: scamin3
Type Locality: no locality given = Ceylon; cf. Whistler and Kinnear, 1933, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 36, p. 341, footnote.
Author: Forster, JR
Publish Year: 1781
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
PERICROCOTUS
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Sunda Minivet P. miniatus) Gr. περι peri very, all around; κροκωτος krokōtos golden-yellow < κροκος krokos saffron; "VI. Fam. Sylviadae Vigors. ... Pericrocotus: Musc. miniata Tem. col. 156 u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Pericrocotus Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 2, (10), col. 972. Type, by original designation [?] and monotypy, Muscicapa miniata Temminck." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 207).
Var. Perierocotus, Pericrodotus.
Synon. Acis, Motacilloides, Phoenicornis.
flammeum / flammeus
L. flammeus fiery, flaming, flame-coloured, flammulated < flamma flame < flagrare to burn.
● ex “Grimpar Flambé” of Levaillant 1807 (syn. Xiphorhynchus pardalotus).
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)
