Small-billed Elaenia / Elaenia parvirostris
Small-billed Elaenia
SCI Name:
Protonym: Elainea parvirostris Orn.Brasil. Abth.2 p.107,178
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Elaenia
Taxonomy Code: smbela1
Type Locality: Curitiba, Borba, and Barcelos, Brazil; type from Curitiba, Parana, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 415.
Author: von Pelzeln
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ELAENIA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Elaenia E. flavogaster) Gr. ελαινεος elaineos of olive-oil, oleaginous < ελαια elaia olive; "Elænia n. g. 6) Musc. pagana Licht.; brevirostris, — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max; — Hylophilus cinerascens ejusd. Numerosæ americanæ, transitum ad Tyrannides præbentes; Fringillis subsimiles. ... 6) Rostrum crassiusculum, breve, basi dilatatum, altitudine latius; carina dorsali subacuta, sutura recta. Membrana narium plumulis tecta. Vibrissæ tenues. Alæ mediocres vel sub-breves, rotundatæ, remigib. 3-5 reliqvis longioribus. Pedes mediocres, digitis brevibus, subliberis. Olivaceæ-cinerascentes; sæpe subtus, interdum vertice flavæ. — Eλαινιος, oleagineus." (Sundevall 1836); "Elaenia Sundevall, 1836, Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 1835, p. 89. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 49), Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flavogaster Thunberg." (Traylor in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 26-27).
Var. Elaenea, Elainea, Elainia, Eloenia, Elana, Elania.
parvirostris
L. parvus small; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Pato pico pequeño” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 432 (syn. Anas sibilatrix).
● "54. Tetrao, L. 141. urogallus, L. (major, Br. crassirostris, Brehm. hybridus, L. cum Lyr. tetrice. medius, Leisl. intermedius, Langsd. pseudourogallus, Brehm. maculatus, Brehm. urogalloides, Nilss.) 142. parvirostris, Bp. (urogalloides, Middend.)" (Bonaparte 1856). According to Mlíkovsky 2012, "the Black-billed Capercaillie should be called Tetrao urogalloides Middendorff, 1853, not Tetrao parvirostris Bonaparte, 1856." (syn. Tetrao urogalloides).
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)