Southern Carmine Bee-eater / Merops nubicoides
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Southern Carmine Bee-eater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Merops nubicoides Rev.Zool. 9 p.243
Taxonomy: Coraciiformes / Meropidae / Merops
Taxonomy Code: scbeat1
Type Locality: Port Natal, error = Ouri River, Transvaal.
Author: Des Murs & Pucheran
Publish Year: 1846
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MEROPS
(Meropidae; Ϯ European Bee-eater M. apiaster) L. merops, meropis bee-eater < Gr. μεροψ merops bee-eater; "57. MEROPS. Rostrum curvatum, compressum, carinatum. Lingua apice laciniata. Digiti infimo articulo coadunati: postico distincto." (Linnaeus 1758); "Merops Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 117. Type, by tautonymy, Merops apiaster Linné (Merops, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1945, V, 233). Linnaeus's Merops comprised four species (M. Apiaster, M. viridis, M. cinereus, M. cafer).
Synon. Aerops, Apiaster, Archimerops, Blepharomerops, Bombylonax, Coccolarynx, Cosmaerops, Dicreadium, Dicrocercus, Melittias, Melittophagus, Melittophas, Melittotheres, Meropiscus, Micromerops, Patricus, Phlothrus, Spheconax, Sphecophobus, Tachymerops, Tephraerops, Urica.
nubicoides
Specific name Merops nubicus J. Gmelin, 1788; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs resembling; "MEROPS NUBICOIDES. ... Habit. Port-Natalem. M. Nubico proximus, differt gula rosacea, secundariis brevioribus, rectricibus mediis longioribus, rostro crassiore." (des Murs & Pucheran 1846) (Merops).
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)
