Juan Fernandez Firecrown / Sephanoides fernandensis
Juan Fernandez Firecrown
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Fernandensis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.3 p.30
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Sephanoides
Taxonomy Code: juffir1
Type Locality: Island of Juan Fernandez.
Author: King, PP
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
SEPHANOIDES
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Green-backed Firecrown S. sephaniodes) Gr. στεφανη stephanē coronet, diadem; -οιδης -oidēs resembling (cf. specific name Orthorhynchus sephaniodes Lesson & Garnot, 1827); "L'oiseau-mouche à couronne violette ... Cette espèce plus robuste dans ses formes que la plupart des autres oiseaux-mouches, a une calotte d'un pourpre doré passant au violet, qui forme sur l'occiput une sorte de huppe" (Lesson & Garnot 1830); "SEPHANOIDES, Less. S. Kingii, (Vig.) Less. Ois. M., pl. 14." (G. Gray 1840); "Sephanoides G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 14. Type, by monotypy and tautonymy, S. Kingii (Vigors) = Orthorhynchus sephanoides Lesson and Garnot." (Peters 1945, V, 104).
Synon. Eustephanus, Stokoesiella, Thaumaste.
fernandensis / fernandeziana / fernandezianus
Juan Fernández Is., Pacific Ocean.
SUBSPECIES
Juan Fernandez Firecrown (fernandensis)
SCI Name: Sephanoides fernandensis fernandensis
fernandensis / fernandeziana / fernandezianus
Juan Fernández Is., Pacific Ocean.
Juan Fernandez Firecrown (leyboldi)
SCI Name: Sephanoides fernandensis leyboldi
leyboldi
Friedrich Leybold (1827-1879) German botanist, collector in Argentina 1865 and Chile 1879 (‡subsp. Sephanoides fernandensis).
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)