Pale-headed Jacamar / Brachygalba goeringi
WBN 
Pale-headed Jacamar
SCI Name:
Protonym: Brachygalba goeringi Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.253 pl.18
Taxonomy: Galbuliformes / Galbulidae / Brachygalba
Taxonomy Code: pahjac1
Type Locality: Near Maruria, north of Lake of Valencia, at foot of mtn. of Guiguc, Venezuela.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1869
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BRACHYGALBA
(Galbulidae; Ϯ White-throated Jacamar B. albogularis) Gr. βραχυς brakhus short; Mod. L. galba contraction of genus Galbula Brisson, 1760, jacamar; "This little group has the general form of Galbula, but the birds are of smaller size, the tail is shorter and square, and the outer pair of rectrices (abnormally short in Galbula) is altogether absent" (P. Sclater 1891); "27. BRACHYGALBA, Bp. — 108. albigularis, Spix. — 109. albiventer, Cuv. (lugubris, Caban. nec Sw. - inornata, Sclater. - chalcoptera, Reich.)" (Bonaparte 1854); "Brachygalba Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, 2, 1854, p. 129. (Separately paged reprint, Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 13.) Type, by subsequent designation, Galbula albigularis Spix. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 137.)" (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 3).
Var. Brachygalbula.
Synon. Brachyceyx.
goeringi
Christian Anton Goering (1836-1905) German naturalist, artist in Venezuela 1866-1872 (Brachygalba, syn. Campylopterus falcatus, Poospiza).
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)
