Palawan Flowerpecker

SCI Name:  Prionochilus plateni
Protonym:  Prionochilus Plateni Braunschw.Anz. no.37 p.335
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Dicaeidae / Prionochilus
Taxonomy Code:  palflo1
Type Locality:  Palawan
Author:  Blasius, W
Publish Year:  1888
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PRIONOCHILUS
(Dicaeidae; Ϯ Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker P. percussus) Gr. πριων priōn, πριονος prionos  saw; χειλος kheilos  lip; “Fam. PIPRIDÆ?  Subfam. PARDALOTINÆ?  Genus PRIONOCHILUS*, n.g.  <Pardalotus, Temm.  Diff. Char.—Margins of the beak minutely serrated.   Rostrum longiusculum, subcompressum, mandibulus subæqualibus; culmine subcarinato, juxta basin recto, deinde usque ad apicem gradatim decurvato; commissura modice decurvata; gonyde sursum curvata.  Maxilla haud emarginata, sed tomia mandibulae utriusque per medietatem externam minutissime serrata. Nares oblongæ, membrana supra tectæ.  Alæ mediocres, remige 1^a spuria, 3^a, 4^a, et 5^a subæqualibus.  Cauda brevis rectricibus æqualibus.  Pedes subbreves, gressorii, acrotarsiis subscutellatis, paratarsiis integris.  Digitus externus interiore longior, ad medium per longitudinis dimidium coadunatus.  Habitant in Malasia.   Species: 1. P. percussus (Temm.), Pl. Col. 394. f. 2.   2. P. thoracicus (Temm.), Pl. Col. 600. f. 1, 2.   3. P. maculatus (Temm.), Pl. Col. 600. f. 3.   Obs. The nearest affinity of this group is Calyptomena, Raff., to which it approaches in the structure of the beak and feet much more nearly than to Pardalotus. The serrations of the tomia appear not to have been hitherto noticed.   *Πριων, a saw; χειλος, a lip.” (Strickland 1841); "Prionochilus Strickland, 1841, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 9, p. 29. Type, by subsequent designation, Pardalotus percussus Temminck and Laugier (G. R. Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 46). Not preoccupied by Prionocheilus Chevrolat, 1837, Coleoptera." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 171-172).
Var. Prionichilus.
Synon. Acmonorhynchus, Anaimos, Charitociris.
● (syn. Mergus Ϯ Brazilian Merganser M. octosetaceus) "Prionochilus brasiliensis, Bertoni (gen. nov.)  ...  Los bordes están armados, en toda la lonjitud, menos la uña, por una hilera de dientes fuertes, espesos, agudos, oblícuos hacia atrás, muy visibles exteriormente" (Bertoni 1901); "Prionochilus Bertoni, An. Cient. Paraguayos (1), no. 1, 1901, p. 8. Type, by monotypy, Prionochilus braziliensis [sic] Bertoni = Mergus octosetaceus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, I, 186).

platenae / plateni
● Dr Carl Constantin Platen (1843-1899) German physician based at Amoy, China, collector in the East Indies (Aramidopsis, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, Dasycrotapha, syn. Ninox mindorensis, subsp. Pachycephala cinerea, Prionochilus).
● Dr Margarete Platen née Geisler (fl. 1894) wife of German physician Dr Carl C. Platen (syn. Ceyx melanurus mindanensis, Ficedula, Gallicolumba, Prioniturus, Thapsinillas).

SUBSPECIES

Palawan Flowerpecker (plateni)
SCI Name: Prionochilus plateni plateni
platenae / plateni
● Dr Carl Constantin Platen (1843-1899) German physician based at Amoy, China, collector in the East Indies (Aramidopsis, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, Dasycrotapha, syn. Ninox mindorensis, subsp. Pachycephala cinerea, Prionochilus).
● Dr Margarete Platen née Geisler (fl. 1894) wife of German physician Dr Carl C. Platen (syn. Ceyx melanurus mindanensis, Ficedula, Gallicolumba, Prioniturus, Thapsinillas).

Palawan Flowerpecker (culionensis)
SCI Name: Prionochilus plateni culionensis
culionensis
Culion I., Calamianes Group, Philippines.