Silver-breasted Broadbill

SCI Name:  Serilophus lunatus
Protonym:  Eurylaimus lunatus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1833) (1833), Pt1 no.12 p.133
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Eurylaimidae / Serilophus
Taxonomy Code:  sibbro1
Type Locality:  in the neighborhood of Rangoon; type locality restricted to the hills of the Pegu district, Pegu Division, Burma, by Deignan, 1948
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1834
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

SERILOPHUS
(Eurylaimidae; Ϯ Silver-breasted Broadbill S. lunatus) Gr. σηρικον σηρικον sērikon  silk  < σηρες Sēres  the people from whom silk was obtained, the Chinese; λοφος lophos  crest; “SERILOPHUS, Sw.   Bill smaller.  Head with a procumbent crest of silky feathers.  Nostrils as in Eurylaimus.  Rictus smooth.  Wings moderate; lesser quills emarginate at the tips.  Tail short, rounded; the tips of the feathers, together with those of the first four primaries, terminated in soft slender points.  The rasorial type.*     S. lunulatus. Zool. Tr. i. pl. 25.   ...   *It is by this beautiful type, and Megalaphus regius, that I consider the Eurylaiminæ and the Muscicapinæ are united.” (Swainson 1837); "Serilophus Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 262. Type, by monotypy "S. lunulatus Zool. Tr. i, pl. 25" = Eurylaimus lunatus Gould." (Peters 1951, VII, 9).
Var. Serolophus, Sericolophus.

lunatus
L. lunatus  crescent-shaped, sickle-shaped, lunate  < luna  moon.
● ex “Fuscalbin” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (Melithreptus).

SUBSPECIES

Silver-breasted Broadbill (Gray-browed)
SCI Name: Serilophus lunatus rubropygius
rubropygia / rubropygialis / rubropygium / rubropygius
L. ruber, rubra  red; Gr. -πυγιος -pugios  -rumped  < πυγη pugē  rump.

Silver-breasted Broadbill (Silver-breasted)
SCI Name: Serilophus lunatus [lunatus Group]
SERILOPHUS
(Eurylaimidae; Ϯ Silver-breasted Broadbill S. lunatus) Gr. σηρικον σηρικον sērikon  silk  < σηρες Sēres  the people from whom silk was obtained, the Chinese; λοφος lophos  crest; “SERILOPHUS, Sw.   Bill smaller.  Head with a procumbent crest of silky feathers.  Nostrils as in Eurylaimus.  Rictus smooth.  Wings moderate; lesser quills emarginate at the tips.  Tail short, rounded; the tips of the feathers, together with those of the first four primaries, terminated in soft slender points.  The rasorial type.*     S. lunulatus. Zool. Tr. i. pl. 25.   ...   *It is by this beautiful type, and Megalaphus regius, that I consider the Eurylaiminæ and the Muscicapinæ are united.” (Swainson 1837); "Serilophus Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 262. Type, by monotypy "S. lunulatus Zool. Tr. i, pl. 25" = Eurylaimus lunatus Gould." (Peters 1951, VII, 9).
Var. Serolophus, Sericolophus.