Saffron-breasted Redstart / Myioborus cardonai
Saffron-breasted Redstart
SCI Name:
Protonym: Myioborus cardonai Am.Mus.Novit. no.1274 p.6
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Parulidae / Myioborus
Taxonomy Code: sabred1
Type Locality: Mt. Guaiquinima, 1,220 m., Paragua River, Bolivar, Venezuela.
Author: Zimmer & Phelps
Publish Year: 1945
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
MYIOBORUS
(Parulidae; Ϯ Slate-throated Whitestart M. miniatus verticalis) Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; -βορος -boros -devouring < βιβρωσκω bibrōskō to eat up; "a. Bill attenuated towards the end; lateral outlines straight or concave. Tail decidedly longer than the wings. Second quill as long as 6th. Rictal bristles reaching nearly to tip of bill, which from gape is rather less than the length of skull. Tail considerably graduated (.50), the feathers soft, broad; the outer web of outer feather wide, nearly even, and about one-third the width of inner. A rufous patch on vertex. . . .Myioborus. ... Myioborus, BAIRD. (Type Setophaga verticalis, SW.) Rictal bristles very long, reaching to the end of the bill; the toes more as in ruticilla, though longer, the middle toe without claw about three-fifths the tarsus. The wings are shorter than the broad, soft, rounded tail, and the wing is much rounded; the 4th quill longest, the 1st about equal to the 7th. The species of this section have been usually referred to Setophaga, but differ very appreciably as indicated." (Baird 1865). Doubtless mistakenly, Baird gave the type as Setophaga verticalis "Sw." when he meant Setophaga miniata Sw., 1827, but now Setophaga verticalis Lafresnaye & d'Orbigny, 1837, is generally so regarded.
Synon. Erythrosoma.
cardonai / cardonaorum
● Capt. Félix Cardona Puig (1903-1982) Spanish explorer, cartographer, collector in Venezuela, and his twin sons Jorge Cardona Johnson and Heinz Cardona Johnson (b. 1937) Venezuelan engineers, members of the Frontier Commission of Venezuela (subsp. Cranioleuca demissa).
● Capt. Félix Cardona Puig (1903-1982) Spanish explorer, cartographer, collector in Venezuela (Myioborus).
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)