Somali Tit / Melaniparus thruppi
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Somali Tit
SCI Name:
Protonym: Parus thruppi Ibis p.406 pl.XI
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Paridae / Melaniparus
Taxonomy Code: somtit4
Type Locality: SomaUland [''near centre of plateau,'' south of Burao] .
Author: Shelley
Publish Year: 1885
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELANIPARUS
(Paridae; Ϯ Southern Black Tit M. niger) Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; genus Parus Linnaeus, 1758, tit; "489. Melaniparus, Bp. (Parus, p. Gr.) 3. P. niger, Vieill. (luctuosus, Licht.) Lev. Afr. t. 137. 1. ex Africa mer." (Bonaparte 1850).
Var. Melanoparus.
Synon. Aegithospiza, Pentheres.
thruppi
James Godfrey Thrupp (1848-1913) British surgeon in Natal 1878-1879, explorer in Somaliland 1884-1885 (Melaniparus).
SUBSPECIES
Somali Tit (thruppi)
SCI Name: Melaniparus thruppi thruppi
thruppi
James Godfrey Thrupp (1848-1913) British surgeon in Natal 1878-1879, explorer in Somaliland 1884-1885 (Melaniparus).
Somali Tit (barakae)
SCI Name: Melaniparus thruppi barakae
baraka / barakae
● Baraka (d. 1911) Kenyan hunter, skinner for Sir Frederick Jackson (subsp. Bradypterus lopezi, subsp. Illadopsis albipectus, subsp. Melaniparus thruppi, syn. Nectarinia purpureiventris, subsp. Sylvietta virens, subsp. Turdus abyssinicus).
● Baraka, Sud Kivu, Belgian Congo (= DR Congo) (syn. Campethera tullbergi taeniolaema).
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)
