Long-tailed Myna / Mino kreffti
Long-tailed Myna
SCI Name:
Protonym: Gracula kreffti Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.120 pl.9
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sturnidae / Mino
Taxonomy Code: lotmyn1
Type Locality: Solomon Islands. Restricted to New Ireland by Mayr (Ibis, 1933, p. 551), but the original locality can stand.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1869
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MINO
(Sturnidae; Ϯ Yellow-faced Myna M. dumontii) Hindi name Maina for starlings and mynahs; “Greater Minor” or “Mino” were names given to the Common Hill Mynah Gracula religiosa by Edwards 1743; "Sous-genre MINO, Mino, N. ... Le sous-genre que MM. L. et G. établissent en conservant l'ancien nom indien de Mino ou de Minor, donné par Edwards et par Marsden au Mainate, diffère du genre Mainatus par quelques caractères assez distincts. Il semble former le passage des genres Mainatus et Pastor par l'intermédiaire du Philedon goulin (Pastor musicus, Temm., ou Gracula calva), qui devra s'y rapporter très-probablement. ... Une seule espèce appartient encore à ce sous-genre: c'est le Mino de Dumont (Mino Dumontii, Less.) de la Nouvelle-Guinée." (Lesson 1827); "Mino Lesson, 1827, Bull. Sci. Nat. Geol, (Bull. Univer. Sci. Indus., sec. 2), 10, p. 158. Type, by monotypy, Mino dumontii Lesson." (Amadon in Peters 1962, XV, 115).
Var. Mina, Minor.
Synon. Eumathes, Melanopyrrhus.
kreffti
Johann Ludwig Gerhard Krefft (1830-1881) German draughtsman, naturalist, explorer, collector in Australia 1852-1881, Curator of Australian Mus., Sydney 1861-1874 (Mino, syn. Pitta versicolor simillima).
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)