Banded Honeyeater

SCI Name:  Cissomela pectoralis
Protonym:  Myzomela pectoralis Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1840) (1840), Pt8 no.95 p.170
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Cissomela
Taxonomy Code:  banhon1
Type Locality:  northwestern coast of Australia.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1841
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CISSOMELA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Banded Honeyeater C. pectoralis) Portmanteau of genera Cissa Boie, 1826, magpie, and Myzomela Vigors & Horsfield, 1827, myzomela; the combination alludes to the black and white plumage; "Subfam. 83. MYZOMELINÆ.  ...  43. Cissomela, Bp.  ...   Myzomela nigra, Gould, est pour moi le type du nouveau genre Cissomela: Cissomela nigra, Bp. ex Gould, Australia: Minor: nigra; subtus cum uropygio albo, torque pectorali nigro." (Bonaparte 1854); "Cissomela Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 38, pp. 260, 264. Type, by original designation, Cissomela nigra Bonaparte = Myzomela pectoralis Gould." (Salomonsen in Peters, 1967, XII, p. 436).

pectorale / pectoralis
L. pectoralis  of the breast, pectoral  < pectus, pectoris  breast.
● ex “Engoulevent à collier” of Levaillant 1806 (Caprimulgus).
● ex “Janfréderic” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 111 (syn. Cossypha caffra).
● ex “Austral Quail” of Latham 1823 (Coturnix).
● ex “Gold-breasted Manakin” of Latham 1801 (Euphonia).
● ex “Petit Merle brun à gorge rousse de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 644, fig. 2, and “Yellow-breasted Thrush” of Latham 1785 (syn. Gymnopithys rufigula).
● ex “Red-breasted Snipe” of Montagu 1813 (syn. Limnodromus griseus).
● ex “Black-breasted Flycatcher” of Latham 1787 (Pachycephala).
● ex “Mbatuitui pecho listado” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 389 (syn. Pluvialis dominica).
● ex “Tachurí pecho amarillo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 165 (Polystictus).
● ex “Black-breasted Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (syn. Sporophila americana).
● ex “Cordon Noir” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 150 (artefact).
● ex “Hausse-Col Noir” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 110 (artefact).