Flame-crowned Manakin / Heterocercus linteatus
WBN 
Flame-crowned Manakin
SCI Name:
Protonym: Elaenia linteata Contrib.Orn.[Jardine] p.121 pl.63
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pipridae / Heterocercus
Taxonomy Code: flcman2
Type Locality: upper branches of Amazon; restricted to Borba, Rio Madeira (right bank), Amazonas, Brazil, by Gyldenstolpe, 1951, Arkiv Zool., ser. 2, 2, p. 245.
Author: Strickland
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HETEROCERCUS
(Pipridae; Ϯ Flame-crested Manakin H. linteatus) Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; κερκος kerkos tail; "both sexes possess the graduated tail with the outermost rectrices shortest and narrowest (being about half the length and width of the central tail feathers). Furthermore, the feather rachises of the rectrices are curiously unstiffened" (Kirwan & Green 2011); "Genus HETEROCERCUS. 1494. HETEROCERCUS LINTEATUS. Elænia linteata, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 121. pl. 63. Heterocercus linteatus, Hartl. in Mus. Brem." (P. Sclater 1862); "Heterocercus Sclater, 1862, Cat. Coll. Amer. Birds, p. 245. Type, by monotypy, Elaenia linteata Strickland." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 257).
heterocercus
Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; κερκος kerkos tail.
linteata / linteatus
L. linteatus clothed in linen < linteum linen cloth < linum thread < Gr. λινον linon flax, thread.
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)
