Purple-bearded Bee-eater / Meropogon forsteni
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Purple-bearded Bee-eater
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Protonym: Meropogon forsteni Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.164
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Meropidae / Meropogon
Taxonomy Code: pbbeat1
Type Locality: Celebes.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MEROPOGON
(Meropidae; Ϯ Purple-bearded Bee-eater M. forsteni) Gr. μεροψ merops bee-eater; πωγων pōgōn, πωγωνος pōgōnos beard; "*312. Meropogon, Bp. (Merops, p. Temm.) Alae Melittophagi: cauda Meropis: rostrum et plumae juguli penduli Nyctiornithis! Oceania. 1. *MEROPS forsteni, Temm. Mus. Lugd. ex Celebes. Viridis; sincipite, superciliis, gula, et plumis juguli pendulis, intense azureis; cervice, abdomine, rectricibusque lateralibus castaneis; mediis elongatis, aequilatis, extimisque margine externa viridibus." (Bonaparte 1850); "Meropogon Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, 1850, p. 164. Type, by monotypy, Meropogon forsteni Bonaparte." (Peters 1945, V, 239).
Var. Mesopogon.
Synon. Pogonomerops.
forsteni / forstenii
Dr Eltio Alegondus Forsten (1811-1843) Dutch zoologist, collector in the East Indies 1838-1843 (syn. Aplonis mysolensis (ex Lamprotornis obscura Forsten MS = Bonaparte, 1851), syn. Aviceda subcristata reinwardtii, Ducula, subsp. Megapodius freycinet, Meropogon, Oriolus, subsp. Pitta sordida, syn. Todiramphus chloris, Trichoglossus, syn. Tyto alba delicatula).
● See: forsteri
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)
