Flores Monarch / Symposiachrus sacerdotum
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Flores Monarch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Monarcha sacerdotum Zool.Meded.Rijksmus.Nat.Hist.Leiden 46 p.179
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Symposiachrus
Taxonomy Code: flomon1
Type Locality: Sesok, Flores; altitude 1,000 meters.
Author: Mees
Publish Year: 1973
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
SYMPOSIACHRUS
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Spectacled Monarch M. trivirgatus) Gr. συν sun, συμ sum together; ποσις posis husband; αχρως akhrōs pallid; "Mélanornithés ... Symposiachrus, Bp., a pour type la trivirgata, qu'il était impossible de laisser parmi les Monarcha, car c'est un véritable Myagrien. Par ces disjonctions il ne reste plus de Monarcha légitimes que le type du genre, Mon. carinata, Vig., et la Drimophila cinerascens, Temm." (Bonaparte 1854).
Var. Symposiarchus (Gr. συμποσιον sumposion drinking party, guest; αρχος arkhos leader).
Synon. Heteranax, Lorimonarcha, Monarchalba, Penemonarcha, Piezormona.
sacerdotum
L. sacerdotum of the priests < sacerdos, sacerdotis priest < sacer, sacra holy.
● Revd. Fr. Jilis Antonius Josephus Verheijen (1908-1997) Dutch missionary and Revd. Fr. Erwin Schmutz (b. 1932) German missionary, both naturalists, botanists and collectors on the island of Flores, Indonesia (Symposiachrus).
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)
