Golden Monarch

SCI Name:  Carterornis chrysomela
Protonym:  Muscicapa chrysomela Voy.Coq. Atlas 1 livr.5 pl.18 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Carterornis
Taxonomy Code:  golmon1
Type Locality:  New Zealand (error).
Author:  Lesson & Garnot
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CARTERORNIS
(Monarchidae; Ϯ White-eared Monarch C. leucotis) Thomas Carter (1863-1931) English ornithologist, collector, pastoralist, explorer in Australia 1886-1921; Gr. ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "752. CARTERORNIS, gen. nov.  Differs from Piezorhynchus in its weaker bill and feet and in its different wing-formula: the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries are sub-equal and longest, the seventh longer than the second which is about twice the length of the first, the eighth sub-equal with second; from Symposiachrus in its longer narrower bill and different wing-formula.  Type, Monarcha leucotis Gould." (Mathews 1912); "Carterornis Mathews, 1912. Austral. Av. Rec. 1: 111.  Type, by original designation, Monarcha leucotis Gould." (Beehler and Pratt, 2016, Birds New Guinea, p. 449).
Synon. Chloromonarcha, Monarchanax.

chrysomela / chrysomelas
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black.

SUBSPECIES

Golden Monarch (aurantiacus)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela aurantiacus
aurantiaca / aurantiacus
Mod. L. aurantiacus orange-coloured < Late Med. L. aurantia orange.
● ex “Manakin orangé” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Pipra aureola).

Golden Monarch (melanonotus)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela melanonotus
melanonota / melanonotus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.
● ex “Pico de punzon azul y canala” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 104 (Pipraeidea).

Golden Monarch (kordensis)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela kordensis
kordensis / kordoana / kordoanus
Kordo, Koredo or Korido, names for the western section of Biak I., Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.

Golden Monarch (nitidus)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela nitidus
nitidum / nitidus
L. nitidus  brilliant, glittering  < nitere  to shine (cf. Med. L. nitidus  fresh).

Golden Monarch (aruensis)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela aruensis
aruense / aruensis
Aru Is., Moluccas, Indonesia.

Golden Monarch (pulcherrimus)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela pulcherrimus
pulcherrima / pulcherrimus
L. pulcherrimus  very beautiful  < super. pulcher, pulchra  beautiful.
● ex “Pigeon violet à tête rouge d’Antigue” of Sonnerat 1766 (Alectroenas).

Golden Monarch (chrysomela)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela chrysomela
chrysomela / chrysomelas
Gr. χρυσος khrusos  gold; μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black.

Golden Monarch (whitneyorum)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela whitneyorum
whitneyorum
William Collins Whitney (1841-1904) US politician, lawyer, Corporation Counsel of New York 1875-1882, Secretary of the Navy 1885-1889, financier, philanthropist, his eldest son Harry Payne Whitney (1872-1930) who sponsored various expeditions, and the latter’s wife Gertrude Whitney née Vanderbilt (1877-1942) sculptress, patroness of the arts (subsp. Carterornis chrysomela).

Golden Monarch (tabarensis)
SCI Name: Carterornis chrysomela tabarensis
tabarensis
Tabar I., Tabar Group, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea.