Purple-bearded Bee-eater / Meropogon forsteni

Purple-bearded Bee-eater / Meropogon forsteni

Purple-bearded Bee-eater

SCI Name:  Meropogon forsteni
Protonym:  Meropogon forsteni Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.164
Taxonomy:  Coraciiformes / Meropidae /
Taxonomy Code:  pbbeat1
Type Locality:  Celebes.
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Publish Year:  1850
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DEFINITIONS

MEROPOGON
(Meropidae; Ϯ Purple-bearded Bee-eater M. forsteni) Gr. μεροψ merops  bee-eater; πωγων pōgōn, πωγωνος pōgōnos  beard; "*312. Meropogon, Bp. (Merops, p. Temm.)  Alae Melittophagi: cauda Meropis: rostrum et plumae juguli penduli Nyctiornithis!    Oceania.  1.     *MEROPS forsteni, Temm. Mus. Lugd.  ex CelebesViridis; sincipite, superciliis, gula, et plumis juguli pendulis, intense azureis; cervice, abdomine, rectricibusque lateralibus castaneis; mediis elongatis, aequilatis, extimisque margine externa viridibus." (Bonaparte 1850); "Meropogon Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, 1850, p. 164. Type, by monotypy, Meropogon forsteni Bonaparte." (Peters 1945, V, 239).
Var. Mesopogon.
Synon. Pogonomerops.

forsteni / forstenii
Dr Eltio Alegondus Forsten (1811-1843) Dutch zoologist, collector in the East Indies 1838-1843 (syn. Aplonis mysolensis (ex Lamprotornis obscura Forsten MS = Bonaparte, 1851), syn. Aviceda subcristata reinwardtiiDucula, subsp. Megapodius freycinet, Meropogon, Oriolus, subsp. Pitta sordida, syn. Todiramphus chloris, Trichoglossus, syn. Tyto alba delicatula).
● See: forsteri