Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher

SCI Name:  Terpsiphone atrocaudata
Protonym:  Muscipeta atrocaudata Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt7 no.78 p.102
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Terpsiphone
Taxonomy Code:  japfly1
Type Locality:  Malaya (erroneously said to be error for Japan, Ornith. Soc. Japan, 1974, Check-list Japanese Birds, ed. 5, p. 277).
Author:  Eyton
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

TERPSIPHONE
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Indian Paradise-flycatcher T. paradisi) Gr. τερψι terpsi  delighting in  < τερπω terpō  to delight; φονος phonos  murder (cf. φωνη phōnē  voice); "Muscipeta, Cuv. — Terpsiphöne, f.   Muscipeta zu ähnlich und ganz gleich bedeutend mit Muscicapa. — Terpsiphŏne (necando gaudens) — nicht Terpsiphōne (voce laeta), von ihrem schnellen, muntern Jagem nach Insekten und ihrem fröhlichen Wesen." (Gloger 1827); "Terpsiphone Gloger, 1827, in Froriep, Notizen, 16, col. 278. New name for Muscipeta Cuvier, 1817, preoccupied by Muscipeta Koch, 1816 = Acrocephalus Naumann, 1811." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 478-479).
Var. Terpsichore (Gr. myth. Terpsichore, the Muse of the dance; τερψιχορος terpsikhoros  delighting in the dance).
Synon. Callaeops, Monedula, Muscipeta, Neoxeocephus, Tchitrea, Xeocephus.

atrocaudata
L. ater black; caudatus tailed < cauda tail.

SUBSPECIES

Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher (atrocaudata)
SCI Name: Terpsiphone atrocaudata atrocaudata
atrocaudata
L. ater black; caudatus tailed < cauda tail.

Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher (illex)
SCI Name: Terpsiphone atrocaudata illex
illex
L. illex, illix or inlex, illicis  alluring, enticing  < inlicere  to entice.

Japanese Paradise-Flycatcher (periophthalmica)
SCI Name: Terpsiphone atrocaudata periophthalmica
periophthalmica / periophthalmicus
Gr. περι peri  all around; οφθαλμικος ophthalmikos  of the eye  < οφθαλμος ophthalmos  eye (cf. περιοφθαλμιος periophthalmios  round the eye).