Bismarck Black Myzomela

SCI Name:  Myzomela pammelaena
Protonym:  Myzomela pammelaena Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 p.553
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Myzomela
Taxonomy Code:  ebomyz1
Type Locality:  Nares Harbour, Admiralty Islands.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

MYZOMELA
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Scarlet Myzomela M. sanguinolenta) Gr. μυζαω muzaō  to suck; μελι meli  honey; "This section forms an interesting subdivision of the present group [Meliphagidae], as marking the passage to the Cinnyridæ ...  this type of form may be generically characterized as follows, the Mel. cardinalis being the normal species.  Genus. MYZOMELA.  Rostrum breve, gracile; culmine arcuato, ad basin subcultrato; naribus longitudinalibus, linearibus, perangustis, membrana supra tectis, rostri tertiam partem longitudine æquantibus.  Lingua, alæ, pedesque iidem fere ut in Meliphagis veris.  Cauda subbrevis, æqualis" (Vigors & Horsfield 1827); "Myzomela Vigors and Horsfield, 1827, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 15, p. 318 [=316]. Type, by original designation, Meliphaga cardinalis Vigors and Horsfield = Certhia sanguinolenta Latham." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 350).
Var. Mysomela.
Synon. Cosmeteira, Melomyza.    

pammelaena / pammelaina
Gr. παμμελας pammelas, παμμελαινα pammelaina  all black  < πας pas, παν pan  all, entire; μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black.

SUBSPECIES

Bismarck Black Myzomela (ernstmayri)
SCI Name: Myzomela pammelaena ernstmayri
ernstmayri
Dr Ernst Walter Mayr (1904-2005) German evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, systematist (syn. Delichon nipalense, syn. Erythrura hyperythra microrhyncha, ‡Hypotaenidia, subsp. Myzomela pammelaena, syn. Rhynchostruthus socotranus percivali).

Bismarck Black Myzomela (pammelaena)
SCI Name: Myzomela pammelaena pammelaena
pammelaena / pammelaina
Gr. παμμελας pammelas, παμμελαινα pammelaina  all black  < πας pas, παν pan  all, entire; μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black.

Bismarck Black Myzomela (hades)
SCI Name: Myzomela pammelaena hades
hades
Gr. myth. Hades, the underworld (i.e. black, dark, gloomy) (subsp. Myzomela pammelaena, subsp. Turdus poliocephalus).

Bismarck Black Myzomela (ramsayi)
SCI Name: Myzomela pammelaena ramsayi
ramsayi
● Col. Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay (1852-1921) British Army in India and Burma 1872-1882, President of BOU 1913-1918 (Actinodura, syn. Cyornis banyumas lemprieri, Picoides, subsp. Psilopogon franklinii, subsp. Trochalopteron melanostigma).
● Dr Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842-1916) Australian zoologist, Curator of Australian Mus., Sydney 1874-1894 (syn. Burhinus grallarius, subsp. Ceyx pusillus, syn. Daphoeonositta chrysoptera, subsp. Lonchura castaneothorax (ex Donacola nigriceps Ramsay, 1877), subsp. Myzomela pammelaena, syn. Petroica goodenovii, syn. Ramsayornis modestus (ex Gliciphila subfasciata Ramsay, 1868), syn. Todiramphus sanctus, syn. Zosterops lateralis vegetus, syn. Zosterops rendovae).

Bismarck Black Myzomela (nigerrima)
SCI Name: Myzomela pammelaena nigerrima
nigerrima / nigerrimus
L. nigerrimus very black < super. niger black.
● ex “Coucal Nègre” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 222 (?syn. Centropus menbeki, ?syn. Centropus bernsteini).
● ex “Crabier noir de la Nouvelle Guinée” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 926 (syn. Egretta sacra).
● ex “Merula madagascariensis aurea” of Brisson 1760, “Merle doré de Madagascar” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 539, fig. 1, and de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Black-cheeked Thrush” of Latham 1783 (syn. Philepitta castanea).
● ex “Tangara noir d’Amérique” (= ♂) of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 179, fig. 2, “Tangara noir” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Gujana Tanager” of Latham 1783 (syn. Tachyphonus rufus).