Orange-crowned Manakin / Heterocercus aurantiivertex
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Orange-crowned Manakin
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Protonym: Heterocercus aurantiivertex Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.157
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pipridae / Heterocercus
Taxonomy Code: orcman3
Type Locality: Sarayacu, Ecuador.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1880
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HETEROCERCUS
(Pipridae; Ϯ Flame-crested Manakin H. linteatus) Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; κερκος kerkos tail; "both sexes possess the graduated tail with the outermost rectrices shortest and narrowest (being about half the length and width of the central tail feathers). Furthermore, the feather rachises of the rectrices are curiously unstiffened" (Kirwan & Green 2011); "Genus HETEROCERCUS. 1494. HETEROCERCUS LINTEATUS. Elænia linteata, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 121. pl. 63. Heterocercus linteatus, Hartl. in Mus. Brem." (P. Sclater 1862); "Heterocercus Sclater, 1862, Cat. Coll. Amer. Birds, p. 245. Type, by monotypy, Elaenia linteata Strickland." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 257).
heterocercus
Gr. ἑτερος heteros different; κερκος kerkos tail.
aurantiivertex
Late Med. L. aurantius orange-coloured < aurantia orange; L. vertex, verticis crown of the head.
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)
