Gurney’s Pitta / Hydrornis gurneyi
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Gurney's Pitta
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Protonym: Pitta Gurneyi Str.Feath. 3 p.296 pl.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pittidae / Hydrornis
Taxonomy Code: gurpit1
Type Locality: southern Tenasserim.
Author: Hume
Publish Year: 1875
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
HYDRORNIS
(Pittidae; Ϯ Blue-naped Pitta H. nipalensis) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro- water- < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos water; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird (see Paludicola); "Pitta nuchalis, Nobis, is identical with Hydrornis (olim Paludicola) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J.A.S. VI, 103: but it is barely separable from the great group of Pitta" (Blyth 1843); "Hydrornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 960. New name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837. Type, by monotypy, Paludicola Nipalensis Hodgson." (Mayr in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 310-311).
Synon. Anthocincla, Eucichla, Gigantipitta, Heleornis, Insignipitta, Iridipitta, Leucopitta, Merulanthus, Ornatipitta, Paludicola.
gurneyi
John Henry Gurney, Sr. (1819-1890) English banker, MP, ornithologist specialising in raptors, founder member of BOU (syn. Accipiter brevipes, syn. Anaplectes rubriceps, Aquila, subsp. Aviceda subcristata, syn. Falco cherrug milvipes, Geokichla, Hydrornis, Mimizuku, syn. Pernis ptilorhynchus ruficollis, syn. Podiceps nigricollis, Promerops).
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)
