Blue-and-white Mockingbird / Melanotis hypoleucus
Blue-and-white Mockingbird
SCI Name:
Protonym: Melanotis hypoleucus Rev.Mag.Zool.(2), 4 p.460
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Mimidae / Melanotis
Taxonomy Code: bawmoc1
Type Locality: Guatemala.
Author: Hartlaub
Publish Year: 1852
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELANOTIS
(Mimidae; Ϯ Blue Mockingbird M. caerulescens) Specific name Turdus melanotis Temminck, 1830 (< Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; -ωτις -ōtis -eared < ους ous, ωτος ōtos ear); "573. Melanotis, Bp. (Mimus, p. Boie. - Orpheus, p. Sw. - Turdus, p. Gr.) Mexico. 1. TURDUS melanotis, Temm. nec Gould. (Orpheus caerulescens, Sw. - Melanotis caerulescens, Bp.) Pl. col. 498. ex Mexico." (Bonaparte 1850); "Melanotis Bonaparte, 1850, Consp. Gen. Av., 1, p. 276. Type, by monotypy, Turdus melanotis Temminck = Orpheus caerulescens Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 441).
melanotis
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; -ωτις -ōtis -eared < ους ous, ωτος ōtos ear.
hypoleucus
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; λευκος leukos white (cf. ὑπολευκος hupoleukos whitish).
Hypoleucus
(Phalacrocoracidae; syn. Phalacrocorax † Pied Cormorant P. varius) Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; λευκος leukos white (cf. specific name Carbo hypoleucos von Brandt, 1837 (= syn. Phalacrocorax fuscescens)); "Genera et Species typicae. ... b. *Hypoleucus Rchb. varius (Pelic. — L. Gm.) Rchb. Ic. Av. t. 63. ic. 474. Rel. spec. ib. 872—73. 875—876. t. 60. ic. 2309—10." (Reichenbach 1853); "Hypoleucus Reichenbach, 1853, Avium Systema Naturale, p. VII. Type, by original designation, Pelecanus varius J. Gmelin, 1789." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Hypoleucos.
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)