Marvelous Spatuletail / Loddigesia mirabilis
WBN 
Marvelous Spatuletail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus mirabilis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt15 no.171 p.42
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Loddigesia
Taxonomy Code: marspa1
Type Locality: Chachapoyas, Peru.
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1847
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
LODDIGESIA
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Marvellous Spatuletail L. mirabilis) George Loddiges (1786-1846) English horticulturalist, microscopist and trochilidist; "*184. Loddigesia, Gould, 1850. (Mellisuga, p. Gr.) America m. 1. TROCHILUS mirabilis, Loddig. Pr. Zool. Soc. 1847. - Gr. et Mitch. Gen. B. t. 37. ex Peru. Chachapoyas." (Bonaparte 1850); "Loddigesia "Gould" Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, Mar., 1850, p. 80. Type, by monotypy, Trochilus mirabilis Loddiges i.e. Bourcier." (Peters 1945, V, 128).
Var. Loddiggesia.
Synon. Loddigiornis, Mulsantia, Thaumatoessa.
mirabilis
L. mirabilis marvellous < mirari to admire < mirus wonderful, astonishing.
● ex “Poephile admirable” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1842 (syn. Chloebia gouldiae).
● ex “Parkinson” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (syn. Menura novaehollandiae).
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)
