Rufous-shafted Woodstar / Chaetocercus jourdanii
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Rufous-shafted Woodstar
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ornismya Jourdanii Rev.Zool. 2 p.295
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Chaetocercus
Taxonomy Code: ruswoo1
Type Locality: Trinidad.
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1839
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHAETOCERCUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Rufous-shafted Woodstar C. jourdainii) Gr. χαιτη khaitē long flowing hair; κερκος kerkos tail; "queue composée de huit plumes à baguettes très-resistantes, relevées de bas en haut ... les deux plumes extérieures de la queue se terminant en pointe très-aiguë et de moitié plus courte que les précédentes" (Bourcier 1839); "349. CHÆTOCERCUS, G. R. Gr. 1853. (Trochilus Jourdani, Bourc.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Chætocercus G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 22. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Trochilus (i.e. Ornismya) jourdanii Bourcier." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 140).
Synon. Acestrura, Osalia, Polymnia, Polyxemus.
jourdaini / jourdani / jourdanii
● Prof. Dr Claude Jourdan (1803-1873) French zoologist, comparative anatomist, Conservator of the Mus. of Natural History, Lyons, and first Chairman of the Faculty of Sciences 1834 (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Chaetocercus).
● Revd. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain (1865-1940) British ornithologist, traveller, collector (syn. Lanius collurio, syn. Phalaropus fulicarius).
SUBSPECIES
Rufous-shafted Woodstar (jourdanii)
SCI Name: Chaetocercus jourdanii jourdanii
jourdaini / jourdani / jourdanii
● Prof. Dr Claude Jourdan (1803-1873) French zoologist, comparative anatomist, Conservator of the Mus. of Natural History, Lyons, and first Chairman of the Faculty of Sciences 1834 (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Chaetocercus).
● Revd. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain (1865-1940) British ornithologist, traveller, collector (syn. Lanius collurio, syn. Phalaropus fulicarius).
Rufous-shafted Woodstar (rosae)
SCI Name: Chaetocercus jourdanii rosae
rosae
Claudine Rosalie "Rose" Duquaire née Mulsant (1799-1881) sister of French ornithologist Martial Etienne Mulsant (subsp. Chaetocercus jourdanii).
Rufous-shafted Woodstar (andinus)
SCI Name: Chaetocercus jourdanii andinus
andina / andinum / andinus / andium
Mod. L. Andinus Andean, of the Andes < Andium Andes.
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)
