Andean Emerald / Amazilia franciae
Andean Emerald
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Franciae Ann.Sci.Phys.Nat.Agric.Ind. 9 p.324
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Amazilia
Taxonomy Code: andeme1
Type Locality: Bogota, Colombia.
Author: Bourcier & Mulsant
Publish Year: 1846
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
AMAZILIA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Cinnamon Hummingbird A. rutila) Specific name Ornismya amazilia Lesson, 1828 (see amazilia); "Race: Les AMAZILIS, amazilia, Less. — (pl. 73.) L'ois. mouche lumachelle: Ornysmia lumachella, Less., rev. zool. p. 315. Hab.: Bahia. — (pl. 74.) L'ois. mouche beau: Ornysmia eximia, Delattre, écho, 1813, Hab.: Guatimala. — (pl. 75) L'ois. mouche canelle: Ornysmia cinnamomea, Less., rev. zoolog., 1842, p. 175; Orn. rufula, Delattre, écho, 1843. Hab: Acapulco, Guatimala. (pl. 76) L'ois. m. Clarisse: Ornysmia clarisse, Longuemare, rev. zool., 1841, p. 306. H. Santa-Fe-de-Bogota." (Lesson 1843); "Amazilia Lesson, Écho du Monde Sav., 1843, col. 757. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya cinnamomea Lesson = Ornismia rutila DeLattre. (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philas., 1918, p. 256.)" (Peters 1945, V, p. 61). I have elsewhere suggested that the substantive name Amazili be given to the hummingbirds of this genus.
Var. Amazillia.
Synon. Agyrtria, Albanora, Amazilicus, Amazilina, Amazilius, Amizilis, Arena, Arenella, Ariadne, Ariana, Chionogaster, Chionomesa, Cyanomyia, Elliotia, Eranna, Eratina, Eratopis, Erythronota, Eucephala, Hemistilbon, Hemithylaca, Hypochionis, Leucodora, Lisoria, Myletes, Polyerata, Pyrrhophaena, Saucerottia, Uranomitra.
amazilia
Amazili, an Inca heroine in Jean Marmontel’s novel (1777) “Les Incas, ou la destruction de l’Empire du Pérou” (Amazilia (“le nom de cette espèce rappellera à l’imagination de nos lecteurs une des héroïnes célébrées par Marmontel dans ses Incas, et en même temps les lieux où elle vit” (Lesson 1830), subsp. Columbina minuta).
franciae
● Île de France (= Mauritius); ex “Pigeon Hollandais” of Sonnerat 1782, and “Hackled Pigeon” of Latham 1783 (‡syn. Alectroenas nitidissima).
● Francia Bourcier (fl. 1846) daughter of French diplomat and trochilidist Claude-Marie Jules Bourcier (Amazilia).
SUBSPECIES
Andean Emerald (franciae)
SCI Name: Amazilia franciae franciae
franciae
● Île de France (= Mauritius); ex “Pigeon Hollandais” of Sonnerat 1782, and “Hackled Pigeon” of Latham 1783 (‡syn. Alectroenas nitidissima).
● Francia Bourcier (fl. 1846) daughter of French diplomat and trochilidist Claude-Marie Jules Bourcier (Amazilia).
Andean Emerald (viridiceps)
SCI Name: Amazilia franciae viridiceps
viridiceps
L. viridis green < virere to be green; -ceps -crowned < caput, capitis head.
Andean Emerald (cyanocollis)
SCI Name: Amazilia franciae cyanocollis
cyanocollis
L. cyanos lapis lazuli < Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; Mod. L. -collis -necked, -throated < L. collum neck.
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)