Zenker’s Honeyguide / Melignomon zenkeri

Zenker\'s Honeyguide / Melignomon zenkeri

Zenker's Honeyguide

SCI Name:  Melignomon zenkeri
Protonym:  Melignomon zenkeri Orn.Monatsb. 6 p.22
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Indicatoridae /
Taxonomy Code:  zenhon1
Type Locality:  Jaunde, Cameroons.
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Publish Year:  1898
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DEFINITIONS

MELIGNOMON
(Indicatoridae; Ϯ Zenker's Honeyguide M. zenkeri) Gr. μελι meli,  μελιτος melitos  honey; γνωμων gnōmōn, γνωμονος gnōmonos  guide, inspector  < γιγνωσκω gignōskō  to determine; "Melignomon n. g. Indicatoridarum.  12 Schwanzfedern wie bei Indicator, aber Schnabel dünn und spitz wie bei Prodotiscus.  —  Typus: Melignonom zenkeri Rchw." (Reichenow 1898).

zenkeri / zenkerianus
Georg August Zenker (1855-1922) German botanist, explorer, collector, settler in the Cameroons 1889-1922 (subsp. Accipiter erythropus, subsp. Agapornis swindernianus, subsp. Anthus leucophrys, syn. Lanius mackinnoni, syn. Macrosphenus concolor, Melignomon, syn. Neocossyphus poensis, syn. Phyllastrephus albigularis, subsp. Sarothrura pulchra, subsp. Smithornis sharpei, syn. Stizorhina finschi, subsp. Tauraco persa).