Fiery-tailed Awlbill / Avocettula recurvirostris
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Fiery-tailed Awlbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus recurvirostris Zool.Ill. 2 pl.105
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Avocettula
Taxonomy Code: fitawl1
Type Locality: Peru; error, Cayenne designated by Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., 15, 1908, p. 264.
Author: Swainson
Publish Year: 1822
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
AVOCETTULA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Fiery-tailed Awlbill A. recurvirostris) Dim. < genus Avocetta Brisson 1760, avocet; Reichenbach's 1849, plate XXXIX, labelled Trochilinae: Avocettulinae. Polytminae, amply illustrates the recurved avocet-like bill of this hummingbird; "*Avocettula recurvirostris (Troch. — Sws. 1829.) RCHB. — Peru" (Reichenbach 1854); "Avocettula Reichenbach, Av. Syst. [1849], pl. XXXIX, generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya avocetta Less. = Trochilus recurvirostris Swainson. (Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 23.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 27).
Synon. Avocettinus, Streblorhamphus.
recurvirostra / recurvirostris
L. recurvus bent backwards < recurvare to bend; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Jamaica Shoveler” of Latham 1785 (syn. Oxyura jamaicensis).
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)
