Short-bearded Melidectes / Melidectes nouhuysi
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Short-bearded Melidectes
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Protonym: Melirrhophetes nouhuysi NotesLeydenMus. 32 p.215
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Melidectes
Taxonomy Code: shbmel1
Type Locality: Oranje Mountains, central New Guinea.
Author: van Oort
Publish Year: 1910
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELIDECTES
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Ornate Honeyeater M. torquatus) Gr. μελι meli, μελιτος melitos honey; δηκτης dēktēs biter < δηκω dēkō to bite; "11. MELIDECTES TORQUATUS, gen. et sp. n. (Pl. LV.) Melidectes gen. nov.† ex familia Meliphagidarum: rostro elongato, caput æquante, tenuiusculo, parum arcuato; naribus linearibus, in sulco longitudinali positis: spatio altero postoculari lato et altero postrictali angusto omnino nudis; cauda longa, paulum rotundata; tarsis modicis: alis acutis, modice elongatis. ... MELIDECTES TORQUATUS, sp. n. ... This is a conspicuous new Meliphagine form, not very far from Ptilotis, but distinguishable by the bareness of the sides of the face and bare stripe behind the rictus. These are separated by a scanty line of feathers extending beneath the eye. ... † Mελι, mel, et δηκτης, mordicator." (P. Sclater 1874); "Melidectes Sclater, 1873 [= 1874], Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 694. Type, by monotypy, Melidectes torquatus Sclater." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 415).
Synon. Melionyx, Melirrhophetes.
nouhuysi
Capt. Jan Willem van Nouhuys (1859-1963) Dutch Navy, explorer in New Guinea (Melidectes, Sericornis).
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)
