Swallow-tailed Manakin

SCI Name:  Chiroxiphia caudata
Protonym:  Pipra caudata Nat.Misc. 5 pl.153
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pipridae / Chiroxiphia
Taxonomy Code:  swtman1
Type Locality:  in warmer parts of South America; Rio de Janeiro proposed by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 86.
Author:  Shaw
Publish Year:  1793
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHIROXIPHIA
(Pipridae; Ϯ Blue Manakin C. caudata) Gr. χειρ kheir, χειρος kheiros  hand; ξιφος xiphos  sword (cf. dim. ξιφιδιον xiphidion  dagger; the ξιφιον xiphion of Cabanis 1847 is, in fact, the corn-flag or gladiolus); "Gen. Chiroxiphia  n. gen. (χειρ, Hand; ξιφιον, gerader Degen.)  Hauptunterschiede von Pipra sind: Zugespitzte, stark verengte Handschwingen, stärker entwickelte Armschwingen und verlängerte zugespitzte mittlere Schwanzfedern.  Hierher gehören:  1. Ch. caudata.  Pipra caudata Gm. Lath.    2. Ch. ignicapilla.  Pipra ignicapilla Wagl.    3. Ch. pareola.  Pipra pareola Lin.    4. Ch. militaris.  Pipra militaris Shaw.    5. Ch. oxyura.  Pipra oxyura v. Olf. " (Cabanis 1847); "Chiroxiphia Cabanis, 1847, Archiv f. Naturg., 13 (1), p. 235. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 55), Pipra caudata Shaw and Nodder." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 267).
Var. Cheiroxiphia, Chiroxyphia, Chiroxiphya.
Synon. Cercophaena, Chiroprion.

caudata / caudatus
L. caudatus  tailed, having a (long/short) tail  < cauda  tail.
● ex “Parus caudatus” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, and Willughby 1676, “Long-tail’d Titmouse” of Ray 1713, and “Parus vertice albo, cauda corpore longiore” of Linnaeus 1746 (Aegithalos).
● ex “Merle vert à longue queue de Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Lamprotornis).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à longue queue de Madagascar” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 248, fig. 1 (syn. Terpsiphone mutata).
● ex “Courly à col blanc de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 976, and “Grand Courlis de Cayenne” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Theristicus).