Purple-crowned Fairy / Heliothryx barroti
WBN 
Purple-crowned Fairy
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Barroti Rev.Zool. 6 p.72
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Heliothryx
Taxonomy Code: pucfai1
Type Locality: Cartagena, Colombia.
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1843
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HELIOTHRYX
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Black-eared Fairy H. auritus) Gr. ἡλιος hēlios sun; θριξ thrix, τριχος trikhos hair; a Nahuatl/Aztec name Huitzilin for the hummingbird meant 'tresses-' or 'rays-of-the-sun'; "Heliothryx. Arten. 1. Tr. auritus Gm. 2. — petasophorus P. M. 3. — scutatus Natter. Hieher werden vielleicht alle die Arten zu stellen seyn, den denen der Edelsteinglanz des Gefieders an den eigenthümlich gebildeten Federn hinter dem Ohre hervortritt." (Boie 1831); "Heliothryx Boie, Isis von Oken, 1831, col. 547. Type, by subsequent designation, H. aurita (L.) = Trochilus auritus Gmelin. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 14.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 126).
Var. Heliotryx, Heliothrix, Heliothrys, Heliotrix, Heliotrys.
barroti
Théodore Adolphe Barrot (1801-1870) French diplomat in Colombia 1831-1835, and the Philippines 1835-1838 (Heliothryx, syn. Lepidogrammus cumingi).
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)
