Chestnut-capped Piha / Lipaugus weberi
Chestnut-capped Piha
SCI Name:
Protonym: Lipaugus weberi Ibis p.353-368,front.
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cotingidae / Lipaugus
Taxonomy Code: chcpih1
Type Locality:
Author: Cuervo, Salaman, Donegan & Ochoa
Publish Year: 2001
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
LIPAUGUS
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Screaming Piha L. vociferans) Gr. λιπαυγης lipaugēs dark, deserted by light < λειπω leipō to abandon; αυγη augē, αυγης augēs brilliance; "Gattung Lipangus.1 Hieher aus America: 1. Musc. simplex Lichst. 2. — turdina Pr. Max. 3. — ampelina Lichst. 4. — plumbea Pr. Max. 5. — cinerea Pr. Max. 6. — cinerascens Spix. Alle diese Vögel nähern sich durch ihre Gestalt den Würgern und Ampelis-Arten, und sind durch ihr bleygraues Gefieder ausgezeichnet. Nach den Beobachtungen des Prinzen Max von Wied leben sie in dichten Wäldern u. verrathen ihre Anwesenheit durch ein weitschallendes Pfeifen ... 1 Λιπανγος, splendore deficiens" (Boie 1828); "Lipangus (err. typ.1) Boie, 1828, Isis, p. 318. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List. Genera Birds, p. 29), Muscicapa plumbea Licht[enstein] = Muscicapa vociferans Wied. 1 The cited classical derivation, "λιπαυγσς [sic] = splendore deficiens," indicates a correctible error." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 293).
Var. Lipangus (original spelling), Lipangis, Lipaujus.
Synon. Chirocylla, Chrysopteryx, Coraphos, Lathria, Lepageus, Tijuca, Turdampelis.
weberi
● Orlando Franklin Weber, Jr. (1879-1945) US businessman, philanthropist (subsp. Horornis flavolivaceus).
● Capt. Johann Weber (fl. 1879) collector in Peninsula Siam 1879 (syn. Picus viridanus) (see webberi).
● Walter H. Weber (fl. 2001) Colombian ornithologist, conservationist (Lipaugus).
● Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (1852-1937) German/Dutch zoologist, collector, explorer in the East Indies 1888-1889, 1899-1900, and South Africa 1894-1895 (Trichoglossus).
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)