Red-throated Sunbird / Anthreptes rhodolaemus

Red-throated Sunbird / Anthreptes rhodolaemus

Red-throated Sunbird

SCI Name:  Anthreptes rhodolaemus
Protonym:  Anthreptes rhodolaema Monogr.Nectarin. pt6 p.313 pl.101,fig. dP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Nectariniidae /
Taxonomy Code:  retsun3
Type Locality:  Malacca and Sumatra; restricted to Malacca by Riley, 1934, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 47, p. 116.
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Publish Year:  1878
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DEFINITIONS

ANTHREPTES
(Nectariniidae; Ϯ Brown-throated Sunbird A. malacensis) Gr. ανθος anthos  flower, blossom; θρεπτης threptēs  feeder  < τρεφω trephō  to rear; "Genus, ANTHREPTES.  Bill slender, attenuated, minutely crenated; the base of the under mandible strong, and not having the margin hid by that of the upper mandible.  Wings rounded.  Tail even. Inner toe shorter than the external toe.  Type. — Cynniris Javanica. ZOOL. ILLUSTR., iii. pl. 121" (Swainson 1832); "Anthreptes Swainson, 1832, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer., 2 (1831), p. 495. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Cinnyris javanica Swainson = Certhia malacensis Scopoli." (Rand in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 209).  
Var. Anthothreptes, Anthreptus, Anthotreptes, Anthorheptes, Authreptes.   
Synon. Arachnophila, Euchloridia, Gunningia, Lamprothreptes, Mangusia, Paradeleornis, Rhizophorornis, Tephrolaema.

rhodolaema / rhodolaemus
Gr. ῥοδον rhodon  rose; λαιμος laimos  throat.