Purple-throated Woodstar / Philodice mitchellii
WBN 
Purple-throated Woodstar
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Mitchellii Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt15 no.171 p.47
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Philodice
Taxonomy Code: putwoo1
Type Locality: Zimapdn.
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1847
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
Philodice
(syn. Calliphlox Ϯ Purple-throated Woodstar C. mitchellii) Gr. myth. Philodice, wife of Leucippus and daughter of Inachus; "[Key] Genre AMATHUSIA, Amathusie. ... d. Rectrices externes et subexternes presque égales: les intermédiaires notablement plus courtes. (S.-g. Philodice.) Mitchelli, BOURCIER. Eq., Nouv.-Gren.. >> Class. de M. Gould Calliphlox 180." (Mulsant et al. 1866); "Philodice Mulsant, Verreaux and Verreaux, Mém. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 12, 1866, p. 230 [Essaie Classif. Méth. Trochil., p. 86.] Type, by monotypy, Trochilus mitchellii Bourcier." (Peters 1945, V, 132). Var. Philodoce.
mitchelli / mitchellii
David William Mitchell (1813-1859) English zoologist, artist, Secretary of Zoological Society of London 1847-1859 (syn. Amandava subflava, Calliphlox, Phegornis, subsp. Picoides canicapillus, subsp. Trichoglossus forsteni).
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)
