Great Jacamar

SCI Name:  Jacamerops aureus
Protonym:  Alcedo aurea Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.94
Taxonomy:  Galbuliformes / Galbulidae / Jacamerops
Taxonomy Code:  grejac2
Type Locality:  Berbice, British Guiana.
Author:  Statius Muller
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

JACAMEROPS
(Galbulidae; Ϯ Great Jacamar J. aureus) French Jacamar  jacamar (according to SOED 1944, this is from the Tupí-Güaraní Jacama-ciri (per Marcgrave 1648), although that name is neither in Garcia 1929, nor Straube et al. 2007); “Jacamar  ...  I retain his name [Brisson 1760] from the Brasilian Jacamiciri” (Pennant 1773); Gr. μεροψ merops  bee-eater; “Compound words, whose component parts are taken from two different languages, are great deformities in nomenclature, and naturalists should be especially guarded not to introduce any more such terms into zoology, which furnishes too many examples of them already.  We have them compounded of  ...  Greek and French, as Jacamaralcyon, Jacamerops” (Strickland Code 1842); "II.^e Sous-genre. JACAMEROPS; Jacamerops.  Deux doigts devant et deux derrière; bec fort, notablement recourbé.   6. JACAMEROPS GRAND; Jacamerops grandis: Jacamaciri, Levaill., pl. 54; Galbula grandis, Lath.; Alcedo grandis, Gm.  ...  Habite Cayenne." (Lesson 1830); "Jacamerops Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 3, 1830, p. 234. Type, by monotypy, Alcedo grandis Gmelin = Alcedo aurea P. L. S. Müller." (Peters 1948, VI, 9).
Synon. Lamprotila.

aureus
L. aureus  golden  < aurum  gold.
● ex “Golden-backed Finch” of Brown 1776, and “Gold-backed Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Euplectes).
● ex “Vultur aureus” and “Vultur Bæticus” of Ray 1713, “Vautour doré” of Brisson 1760, and “Vultur aureus” of S. Gmelin, 1774-1784 (subsp. Gypaetus barbatus).
● ex “Coq-de-Roche” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 39, Pipra rupicola J. Gmelin, 1789, and “Rock Manakin” of Latham 1802 (syn. Rupicola rupicola).
● "49. CORACIAS.  ...  aurea.  5. C. flavo-fulva, gula tectricibus primariis extremitateque rectricum nigris.  Paradisea flavo-fulva. Mus. Ad. Fr. I. p. 15.  Paradisea aurea. Edw. Av. 112. t. 112.  Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Sericulus).

SUBSPECIES

Great Jacamar (penardi)
SCI Name: Jacamerops aureus penardi
penardi
● Thomas Edward Penard (1878-1936) Dutch engineer (born in Suriname), ornithologist (subsp. Jacamerops aureus).
●  Doubtless after one or more of the Penard brothers: Frederik Paul Penard (1876-1909), Thomas Edward Penard (1878-1936), and Arthur Philip Penard (1880-1932) Dutch ornithologists, collectors in Suriname (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Picumnus exilis buffoni, subsp. Poecilotriccus fumifrons).
 

Great Jacamar (aureus)
SCI Name: Jacamerops aureus aureus
aureus
L. aureus  golden  < aurum  gold.
● ex “Golden-backed Finch” of Brown 1776, and “Gold-backed Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (Euplectes).
● ex “Vultur aureus” and “Vultur Bæticus” of Ray 1713, “Vautour doré” of Brisson 1760, and “Vultur aureus” of S. Gmelin, 1774-1784 (subsp. Gypaetus barbatus).
● ex “Coq-de-Roche” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 39, Pipra rupicola J. Gmelin, 1789, and “Rock Manakin” of Latham 1802 (syn. Rupicola rupicola).
● "49. CORACIAS.  ...  aurea.  5. C. flavo-fulva, gula tectricibus primariis extremitateque rectricum nigris.  Paradisea flavo-fulva. Mus. Ad. Fr. I. p. 15.  Paradisea aurea. Edw. Av. 112. t. 112.  Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (Sericulus).

Great Jacamar (ridgwayi)
SCI Name: Jacamerops aureus ridgwayi
ridgway / ridgwayi
Robert Ridgway (1850-1929) US ornithologist, Smithsonian Curator of Birds 1880-1929 (Aegolius, syn. Amazona leucocephala, subsp. Anous stolidus, Antrostomus, subsp. Arremonops rufivirgatus, Baeolophus, syn. Basileuterus culicivorus, Buteo, subsp. Buteogallus urubitinga, subsp. Camptostoma imberbe, subsp. Certhidea fusca, subsp. Chasiempis sandwichensis, subsp. Cochlearius cochlearius, subsp. Colinus virginianus, Cotinga, subsp. Cyanocitta stelleri, subsp. Dendrocincla fuliginosa, syn. Dendrocolaptes certhia concolor, syn. Dryobates scalaris parvus, subsp. Fregata minor, subsp. Geothlypis poliocephala, Glaucidium, subsp. Icterus icterus, subsp. Jacamerops aureus, subsp. Lagopus muta, subsp. Leiothlypis ruficapilla (ex Helmithophaga ruficapilla gutturalis Ridgway, 1874), subsp. Loxigilla noctis, syn. Megascops trichopsis, subsp. Myiobius atricaudus, Nesotriccus, subsp. Pandion haliaetus, syn. Passerella iliaca insularis, subsp. Pheugopedius coraya, Plegadis, subsp. Psarocolius wagleri, subsp. Scardafella squammata, Stelgidopteryx, Thalurania, subsp. Thryorchilus browni, subsp. Xenops genibarbis).

Great Jacamar (isidori)
SCI Name: Jacamerops aureus isidori
isidorei / isidori / isidoria / isidorii
● Capt. Louis Isidore Duperrey (1786-1865) French Navy, commander of La Coquille in round-the-world voyage 1822-1825 (syn. Eos squamata riciniata).
● Prof. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) French zoologist (Garritornis, subsp. Jacamerops aureus, Lepidothrix, syn. Piculus leucolaemus, syn. Rhinortha chlorophaea, Spizaetus).