Orange-throated Sunangel / Heliangelus mavors
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Orange-throated Sunangel
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Protonym: Heliangelus mavors Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt16 no.180 p.12
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Heliangelus
Taxonomy Code: ortsun1
Type Locality: Cordilleras of Venezuela and Colombia
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1848
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
HELIANGELUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Longuemare's Sunangel H. clarisse) Gr. ἡλιος hēlios sun; αγγελος angelos angel; "Genus HELIANGELUS. Gen. char.—Rostrum rectum, æque ac caput longum, cylindraceum, et ad basin aliquanto depressum. Plumæ frontales rostri basin non obtegentes. Alæ mediocriter validæ primaria externa falciformi. Pedes mediocriter validi, halluce digitum intermedium æquante. Cauda mediocris, subrotundata. ... All the species of this genus are from the Andes, and distinguished by the extreme lustre of the throat, which in most of the species is bounded below by a gorget of white or buff. Types, Trochilus Clarisse, Spencei, amethysticollis, and strophianus. HELIANGELUS MAVORS (n. sp.)" (Gould 1848); "Heliangelus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 16, 1848, p. 12. Type, by subsequent designation, Trochilus clarissae [i.e. Ornismya clarisse] Longuemare. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22)." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 105).
Synon. Anactoria, Diotima, Heliotrypha, Heliotryphon, Helymus, Nodalia, Parzudakia, Peratus, Warszewiczia.
mavors
Roman myth. Mavors, Mars the god of war (Heliangelus).
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)
