Long-billed White-eye / Rukia longirostra
WBN 
Long-billed White-eye
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cinnyrorhyncha longirostra Dobutsu.Zasshi 43 p.599
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Zosteropidae / Rukia
Taxonomy Code: lbweye2
Type Locality: Ponape.
Author: Taka-Tsukasa & Yamashina
Publish Year: 1931
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
RUKIA
(Zosteropidae; Ϯ Teardrop White-eye R. ruki) Ruk I., Caroline Is. "Rukia, gen. nov. (Plate VII. fig. 5.) (Zosteropidæ) Description.— Bill very strong, blackish; tarsus and toes also strong, orange colour not black or brown; silky eye-ring on lower edge of eyelid only. Type.— Tephras ruki Hartert, 1897 = Rikia [sic] ruki from Ruk, Caroline Islands." (Momiyama 1922).
Var. Rikia.
Synon. Cinnyrorhyncha, Rhamphozosterops.
longirostra
L. longus long; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Long-billed Creeper” of Latham 1787 (Arachnothera).
Longirostris
(syn. Limnodromus Ϯ Short-billed Dowitcher L. grisea) L. longus long; -rostris
-billed < rostrum beak; "Longirostris is, I think, preferable to Macroramfus [sic] for the genus Longbeak" (C. T. Wood 1836). Var. Longirostra (Wood 1837: "Brown Longbeak. Macroramfe ponctue, - Roth M[acroramfe]. Longirostra grisea, Wood. .. Longbeak, Longirostris, Wood").
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)
