Black-billed Scythebill / Campylorhamphus falcularius
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Black-billed Scythebill
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Protonym: Dendrocopus Falcularius Tabl.Encyc.Meth.Orn. 2 p.626
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Campylorhamphus
Taxonomy Code: blbscy1
Type Locality: Brazil; the type is from Serra dos Orgaos, Rio de Janeiro, fide Hellmayr.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1822
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CAMPYLORHAMPHUS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Black-billed Scythebill C. falcularius) Gr. καμπυλος kampulos curved < καμπτω kamptō to bend; ῥαμφος rhamphos bill; "Campylorhamphus longirostris W. Bertoni (gen. nov.) (Etimol.: del gr. kampylos, encorvado, y rhamphos, pico, y del lat. longirostris, pico largo, porque es el pájaro de pico más largo y arqueado que conosco en el Paraguay, sin exceptuar los Colibrís paraguayos." (Bertoni 1901); "Campylorhamphus Bertoni, An. Cient. Paraguayos, Ser. 1, no. 1, 1901, p. 70. Type, by monotypy, Campylorhamphus longirostris Bertoni = Dendrocopus falcularius Vieillot." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 54).
Var. Campyloramphus.
Synon. Xiphornis.
falcularius
L. falcula small sickle < dim. falx, falcis scythe.
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)
