Shiny Whistling-Thrush / Myophonus melanurus
Shiny Whistling-Thrush
SCI Name:
Protonym: Arrenga melanurus Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 14 p.227
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Myophonus
Taxonomy Code: shwthr1
Type Locality: Mount Singalan, West Sumatra.
Author: Salvadori
Publish Year: 1879
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MYOPHONUS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Blue Whistling Thrush M. caeruleus flavirostris) Gr. μυις muia, μυιας muias fly; φονευς phoneus slayer < φονος phonos murder < θεινω theinō to strike (cf. μυοφονος muophonos mouse-killer < μυς mus, μυος muos mouse); "MYOPHONE LUISANT. MYOPHONUS METALLICUS. TEMM. ... Le Myophone qui fait le sujet de cet article se distingue par un bec très-gros, fort et dur; quelques soies roides garnissent l'ouverture de ce bec, et de petites plumes tournées en avant couvrent la grande membrane qui tapisse les fosses nasales; les tarses sont très-longs; la queue est carrée et les ailes couvrent un tiers seulement de sa longueur" (Temminck 1822); "Les Myiophones sont confinés dans les régions chaudes de l'ancien continent, dont ils habitent les plus hautes montagnes de 4,000 à 7,000 pieds d'élévation au-dessus du niveau de la mer, où ils vivent solitaires parmi les rochers couverts de ronces qui produisent des baies, et dans les endroits les plus touffus des forêts en montagnes, où on les voit se repaître aussi d'insectes et de vers" (Temminck 1832); “Temminck [Pl. Col., livr. 29, pl. 170] in his generic description, spells the new genus Myiophoneus, and on the following page accompanying plate 170 spells it “Myophonus.”” (Ripley in Peters 1964, X,140); “If stability in ornithological nomenclature be considered desirable, why are we asked to use a so-called emendation (in fact a wholly new generic name!) that first appeared in print some ten years after the simple, easily spelled and easily pronounced Myophonus Temminck of 1822?” (Deignan 1965); “In Peters Check-list of Birds of the World, X, Ripley (1964) adopted the spelling Myiophoneus as the generic name for the whistling thrushes ... What this hides is that the text associated with livraison 29 appeared in two parts, both marked with that livraison number, yet separated by some ten years, the first part in 1822 and the second no earlier than 1832” (Dickinson 2001).
Var. Mycophoneus, Myiophoneus, Myiophonus, Myophoneus, Miophonus, Myophorus.
Synon. Arrenga.
melanurum / melanurus
Gr. μελανουρος melanouros with a black tail < μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
● ex “Mbatuitui zancúdo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 393 (subsp. Himantopus himantopus).
● ex “Black-tailed Parrakeet” (= ♂) of Lear 1831 (syn. Polytelis anthopeplus).
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)