Purple-crowned Plovercrest / Stephanoxis loddigesii
WBN 
Purple-crowned Plovercrest
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Loddigesii Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 no.1 p.12
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Stephanoxis
Taxonomy Code: plover4
Type Locality: Rio Grande.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
STEPHANOXIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Green-crowned Plovercrest S. lalandi) Gr. στεφανος stephanos crown < στεφανοω stephanoō to crown; οξυς oxus, οξεια oxeia pointed; "STEPHANOXIS, nom. nov. Cephallepis Lodd., 1830. — Cephalolepis auct. (nom. praeocc.)" (Simon 1897); "Stephanoxis Simon, Cat. Trochil., 1897, p. 40. New name for Cephallepis Loddiges and Cephalolepis Cabanis and Heine, both preoccupied." (Peters 1945, V, 30).
Var. Stephanoxys.
Synon. Cephallepis, Cephalolepis.
loddigesii
George Loddiges (1786-1846) English horticulturalist, and trochilidist (Stephanoxis).
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)
