Violet-throated Metaltail / Metallura baroni
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Violet-throated Metaltail
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Protonym: Metallura baroni Bull.Br.Orn.Club 1 p.49
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Metallura
Taxonomy Code: vitmet1
Type Locality: Mountains near Cuenca, 12,000 ft., Ecuador.
Author: Salvin
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
METALLURA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Black Metaltail M. phoebe) Gr. μεταλλον metallon metal; ουρα oura tail; "METALLURA, gen. nov. Char. gen.— Rostrum rectum, sublongum. Plumæ molles sericeæ. Cauda subgrandis, rotundata. Gula et rectrices infra tanquam metallum expolitum luminosæ. Alæ subgrandes. Tarsi nudi. Pedes subgrandes. Digitus et unguis postici digitum et unguem medios longitudine æquantes vel superantes. ... The species are— Trochilus cupreocauda, Gould. Trochilus æneocauda, Gould. Trochilus Alardi, Bourc. Trochilus smaragdinicollis, D'Orb. Trochilus Williami, Bourc." (Gould 1847); "Metallura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 15, 1847, p. 94. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya cupreicauda Gould = Ornismya phoebe Lesson and DeLattre. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22.)" (Peters 1945, V, 118).
Var. Meltalura.
Synon. Laticauda, Lavinia, Urolampra.
baroni
Oscar Theodor Baron (1847-1926) German engineer, collector in California, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru (subsp. Atlapetes latinuchus, subsp. Cantorchilus superciliaris, Cranioleuca, syn. Eutoxeres aquila heterurus, Metallura, Phaethornis, syn. Sakesphorus bernardi cajamarcae).
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)
