Pacific Flatbill / Rhynchocyclus pacificus
Pacific Flatbill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Craspedoprion pacificus Bull.Am.Mus.Nat.Hist. 33 p.174
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Rhynchocyclus
Taxonomy Code: pacfla1
Type Locality: Juntas de Tamana, Choco, Colombia.
Author: Chapman
Publish Year: 1914
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
RHYNCHOCYCLUS
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Eastern Olivaceous Flatbill R. olivaceus) Anagram of genus Cyclorhynchus Sundevall, 1836, flatbill; "Gen. RHYNCHOCYCLUS **) Nob. — Kreisschnabel. Cyclorhynchus Sundev. 1835 (nec Kaup 1829). 194. 1. R. flaviventer Nob. Platyrhynchus flaviventer Spix Av. Bras. II. p. 12. t. 15. 1. — Muscipeta flaviventris Wied Beitr. III. p. 929. — Tyrannula flaviventris Hartl. Verz. Mus. Brem. p. 50. — Myiobius flaviventer Gray Gen. B. I. p. 294. 23. — Cyclorhynchus flaviventer Cab. Orn. Not. p. 549. — Id. Schomb. Reis. Guian. III. p. 700. 155. ... 195. 2. R. brevirostris Nob. Cyclorhynchus brevirostris Cab. Orn. Not. p. 249. — Platyrhynchus brevirostris Gray Gen. B. III. App. p. 11. ... **) Es gehören hierher noch u. a.: 3. R. aequinoctialis. — Cyclorhynchus aequinoctialis Scl. P. Z. S. 12 Jan. 1858. p. 12. 92 (Ecuador); 4. R. olivaceus. — Platyrhynchus olivaceus Temm. Pl. col. 12. 1. — Wied Beitr. III. p. 969. — Todus olivaceus Licht. Doubl. p. 51. 538. — Platyrhynchus sulphurescens fem. Spix Av. Bras. II. p. 10. t. 12. 2. — Cyclorhynchus olivaceus Gray List Gen. B. p. 52. — Burm. Th. Bras. II. 503 (Brasilien); 5. R. sulphurescens.—Platyrhynchus sulphurescens mas. Spix Av. Bras. II. p. 10. t. 12.1. — Platyrhynchus nuchalis Wied Beitr. III. p. 971. — Cyclorhynchus sulphurescens Cab. Orn. Not. p. 249. — Cyclorhynchus nuchalis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 503 (Brasilien); 6. R. megacephalus. — Tyrannula megacephala Sws. B. Braz. t. 47. — Myiobius megacephalus Gray Gen. B. I. p. 249. 37. — Muscipeta megacephala Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 487 (Brasilien)." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Rhynchocyclus Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Mus. Heineanum, 2, p. 56. New name for Cyclorhynchus Sundevall. ... Under the new rules (Art. 56), Cyclorhynchus Sundevall is available. However, it is now a nomen oblitum, not having appeared in the literature for over 100 years." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 98) (see Cyclorhynchus).
Var. Rhynchcyclous.
Synon. Craspedoprion.
pacificus
L. pacificus peaceful < pax, pacis peace; facere to make. The Pacific Ocean was so-named by the Portuguese explorer Fernão de Magalhães in 1520, contrasting its calm waters with the stormy seas of Cape Horn. The toponym refers to islands in the Pacific Ocean as well as localities on Pacific Ocean coasts.
● Tahiti; ex “Pacific Parrot, var. B” of Latham 1781 (‡syn. Cyanoramphus zealandicus).
● New Holland; ex “Black-backed Gull” (pt.) of Latham 1785, and “Pacific Gull” of Latham 1801 (Larus).
● Erroneous TL. Islands of the South Sea (= Norton Sound, Alaska); ex “Pacific Crow” of Latham 1781 (subsp. Perisoreus canadensis).
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)