Puerto Rican Emerald

SCI Name:  Chlorostilbon maugaeus
Protonym:  Trochilus Maugaeus Ois.Dores[Audebert & Vieillot] 1 p.77,79 pl.37,38
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Chlorostilbon
Taxonomy Code:  pureme1
Type Locality:  Puerto Rico.
Author:  Audebert & Vieillot
Publish Year:  1801
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHLOROSTILBON
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Glittering-bellied Emerald C. lucidus pucherani) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; στιλβων stilbōn, στιλβοντος stilbontos  shining, an epithet of the planet Mercury (cf. στιλβη stilbē  lamp); "[plate] CHLOROSTILBONA PRASINA.   ...   [text] CHLOROSTILBON PRASINUS. Brazilian Emerald.   ...   The male has the upper and under surface yellowish green, with a golden lustre on the crown of the head and the sides of the neck; wings purplish brown; tail black, glossed with steel-blue; throat brilliant grass-green" (Gould 1853); "Chlorostilbon Gould, Monogr. Trochil., pt. 5, May, 1853, pl. [14] and text [= 5, pl. 355 of volume]. Type, by monotypy, Chlorostilbon prasinus Gould, not of authors, = Trochilus pucherani Bourcier." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 36). 
Var. Chlorostilbona.     
Synon. Chloauges, Chlorestes, Chlorolampis, Chrysomirus, Colubris, Erasmia, Halia, Marsyas, Mellisuga, Merion, Panychlora, Prasitis, Riccordia, Sporadinus.

maugaeus / maugeanus / maugei / maugens / maugerii / maugeris / maugeus
René Maugé (1757-1802) French zoologist, collector in the West Indies 1796-1798, the East Indies and Australia 1800-1802 (Chlorostilbon, Dicaeum, Geopelia, syn. Ninox boobook fusca, syn. Polytmus guainumbi thaumantias, ‡subsp. Psittacara chloropterus).