Arfak Honeyeater / Melipotes gymnops
Arfak Honeyeater
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Protonym: Melipotes gymnops Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1873) (1873), Pt3 p.695 pl.56
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Melipotes
Taxonomy Code: arfhon1
Type Locality: Hatam, Arfak Mountains, Vogelkop Peninsula, northwestern New Guinea.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1874
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELIPOTES
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Arfak Honeyeater M. gymnops) Gr. μελι meli, μελιτος melitos honey; ποτης potēs drinker < πινω pinō to drink; "12. MELIPOTES GYMNOPS, gen. et sp. n. (Plate LVI.) Melipotes* gen. nov. ex fam. Meliphagidarum, rostro crassiusculo, breviore quam caput, culmine arcuato, gonyde recta; naribus ovalibus; regione auriculari late nuda et subtus carunculata: alis modicis: cauda modica paulum elongata. MELIPOTES GYMNOPS, sp. n. ... Hab. Atam, apud montes Papuanos Arfak. This form of the Meliphagine family is very distinct on account of the denudation of the whole ocular region, which is fringed below by a narrow caruncle. D'Albertis's notes do not give the colour of these naked parts; but they are probably orange or flesh-colour. The bill is short and rather stout; the nostrils are short and suboval, and situated in a shallow groove near the central feathers. ... *Mελι, mel, et ποτης, potator." (P. Sclater 1874); "Melipotes Sclater, 1873 [= 1874], Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 695. Type, by monotypy, Melipotes gymnops Sclater." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 420).
gymnops
Gr. γυμνος gumnos bare, naked; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos face.
Gymnops
Gr. γυμνος gumnos bare, naked; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos face.
• (Falconidae; syn. Daptrius † Black Caracara D. ater) "GENUS VII. GYMNOPS. Rostro subelongato, gallinaceo, haud alto, subcyclindrico, circa basin, praecipue ante oculos nudo, apice subadunco, oblique descendente; naribus rotundis; collo exserto; tarsis breviusculis; alis cruciatis, cauda aequali vix brevioribus; unguibus compressioribus, gracilioribus. SPECIES 1. GYMNOPS FASCIATUS. ... SPECIES 2. GYMNOPS STRIGILATUS. ... Habitat in sylvis ripariis fluminis Xingú. (An "Cracra piqueno"?). ... SPECIES 3. GYMNOPS ATERRIMUS. Temminck pl. 37. ... SPECIES 4. GYMNOPS AQUILINUS. Linn. F. formosus. Lath. Buff. 417. ... Habitat gregarius in provincia Piauhy sub nomine "Gakaô" sive "Alma do Cabocolo" in locis palmiferis" (von Spix 1824); "Gymnops Spix, Av. Spec. Nov. Bras., 1, p. 11, 1827—type, by subs. desig. (Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 1, p. 34, 1874), [Gymnops aterrimus Spix =] Daptrius ater Vieillot." (Hellmayr and Conover, 1949, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. I (4), p. 259).
• (Sturnidae; syn. Sarcops † Coleto S. calvus) "LES GOULINS. (GYMNOPS. Cuv.) Ont le même bec fort que les loriots, les narines rondes, sans écailles, et sans entourage membraneux, et une grande partie de la tête dénuée de plumes. (1). Quelques-uns ont des proéminences sur le bec (2). Dans ces derniers, la langue est un pinceau comme dans les philédons. ... (1) Le goulin gris (gracula calva, Gm.), enl. 200: - le Goulin vert (mino Dumontii, Less.), Voy. de Duperrey, pl. xxv; - le Goulin olive (gracula cyanotis, Lath.; merops cyanotis, Sh.) (2) Le corbicalao, Vaill., Ois. d'Am. et des Indes, pl. xxiv (merops corniculatus, Lath. et Sh.), et une espèce voisine, dont le tubercule, plus grand, se dirige vers le front (Mer. monachus, Lath.). Ces deux oiseaux de la Nouvelle-Hollande ne sont ni des calaos ni des guêpiers, car ils n'ont pas les doigts externes plus réunis que les passereaux les plus ordinaires" (Cuvier 1829); "Gymnops Cuvier, 1829, Règne Animal, nouvelle éd., I, p. 381. Type, by monotypy, Gracula calva Linnaeus, 1766." (JAJ 2021).
UPPERCASE: current genus
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lowercase: species and subspecies
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‡: extinct
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Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
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/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)