Painted Firetail / Emblema pictum
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Painted Firetail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Emblema picta BirdsAustr. pt7 p.?
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Emblema
Taxonomy Code: paifir1
Type Locality: Depuch''s Island, Mid-West Australia.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1842
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EMBLEMA
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Painted Firetail E. pictum) L. emblema, emblematis inlaid or mosaic work < Gr. εμβλημα emblēma, εμβληματος emblēmatos insertion, embossed ornament, mosaic < εμβαλλω emballō to insert; "Genus EMBLEMA. Rostrum fere quam caput longum, conicum(ut in genere Ploceus). Alæ mediocres; remige prima parvula, quatuor proximis inter se æqualibus; tertiariis elongatis. Cauda mediocris, et fere quadrata, vel paululum rotundata. Pedes plantigradi, digitis gracillimis; digito intermedio externis longiore, illis inter se æqualibus. EMBLEMA PICTA. Emb. facie et gula saturate miniaceis; vertice et corpore supra fuscis; pectore et corpore subtus nigris crebre alboguttatis, abdomine medio miniaceo adsperso." (Gould 1842); "Emblema Gould, 1842, Birds Australia, pt. 7 (also Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 10, p. 17). Type, by monotypy, E. picta Gould. Not preoccupied by the nomenclaturally unavailable Emblema Deshayes 1840" (Mayr in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 353).
Synon. Cayleyna.
pictum
L. pictus painted < pingere to paint.
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)
