White-tufted Honeyeater

SCI Name:  Lichmera squamata
Protonym:  Stigmatops squamata Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 12 p.337
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Lichmera
Taxonomy Code:  whthon2
Type Locality:  Choor [=Kur] Island, eastern Banda Sea.
Author:  Salvadori
Publish Year:  1878
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LICHMERA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Brown Honeyeater L. indistincta ocularis) Gr. λιχμηρης likhmērēs  licking with the tongue  < λιχμαω likhmaō  to lick, to dart with the tongue; "Gen. LICHMERA nov. gen.  *) Bürstenzüngler.   633.  1. L. australasiana Nob. — Certhia australasiana Shaw. Gen. Zool. VIII. p. 226.— Certhia pyrrhoptera Lath.?— Melithreptus melanoleucus Vieill.— Meliphaga australasiana Vig. Horsf. Trans. Lin. Soc. XV. p. 313.— id. Gould B. Austr. IV. tab. 27.— Meliphaga inornata Gould. (jun.).    634.  2. L. ocularis Nob.— Glyciphila ocularis Gould Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837. p. 154.  id. Birds Austr. IV. tab. 31.— Gylciphila subocularis Gould. (Fem an juv.).   ...  *) Von λιχμηρης, züngelnd, leckerhaft.  Die Gruppe steht in der Bildung zwischen Meliornis und Ptilotis" (Cabanis 1853); "Lichmera Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1, p. 118. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 38, p. 263), Glyciphila ocularis Gould." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 345).
Synon. Stigmatops.

squamata
L. squamatus scaled < squama scale.
● ex “Lori de Guéby” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 684, “Lori rouge et violet” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Gueby Lory” of Latham 1781 (Eos).