Bahian Nighthawk / Nyctiprogne vielliardi
WBN 
Bahian Nighthawk
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chordeiles vielliardi Alauda 62 p.241-245
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Nyctiprogne
Taxonomy Code: bahnig1
Type Locality:
Author: Lencioni-Neto
Publish Year: 1994
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NYCTIPROGNE
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ Band-tailed Nighthawk N. leucopyga) Gr. νυκτι- nukti- night-, nocturnal < νυξ nux, νυκτος nuktos night; L. progne or procne swallow < Gr. myth. Progne, who was metamorphosed into a swallow (see Progne); "185. CAPRIMULGINÆ. ... *1629. Nyctiprogne, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); "13. Nyctiprogne, Bp. 50. leucopygius, Spix. (minutus, Bp.)" (Bonaparte 1857); "Nyctiprogne Bonaparte, Riv. Contemp. Turin, 9, 1857, p. 215. Type, by monotypy, Caprimulgus leucopygus Spix.1 ... 1 This name is a nomen nudum in Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (4), 1, 1854, p. 139." (Peters 1940, IV, 189).
Synon. Podochaetes.
vielliardi
Prof. Jacques Marie Edme Vielliard (1944-2010) French ornithologist, ecologist (Nyctiprogne).
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)
