Turquoise-throated Puffleg / Eriocnemis godini
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Turquoise-throated Puffleg
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Godini Compt.Rend. 32 p.186
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Eriocnemis
Taxonomy Code: tutpuf1
Type Locality: Ravines in the Valley of Guayabamba, [Ecuador].
Author: Bourcier
Publish Year: 1851
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
ERIOCNEMIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Coppery-bellied Puffleg E. cupreoventris) Gr. εριον erion wool; κνημις knēmis, κνημιδος knēmidos boot, legging. Reichenbach's 1849, plate XL, labelled Trochilinae. Mellisuginae. Phaetorninae, clearly shows the fluffy tarsal tufts typical of these hummingbirds; "The sexes are very much alike, and both have the white muff-like decoration on the leg, but it is not so much developed in the female as in the male" (Gould 1861); "Eriocnemis Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. [1849], pl. xl. Generic details only, no species. Type, by subsequent designation, Eriopus simplex Gould = Trochilus cupreo-ventris Fraser (Gould, Monogr. Trochil. pt. 3, 1852, pl. [8] and text)." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 108).
Var. Eriocnemys, Euryocnemis.
Synon. Aline, Derbyomyia, Engyete, Erebenna, Eriona, Eriopus, Luciania, Mosqueria, Nania, Niche, Phemonoe, Pholoe, Threptria, Vestipedes.
godini
Louis Godin (1704-1760) French scientist, astronomer in Hispaniola, Ecuador and Peru 1735-1751 (cf. “Jean Godin des Odonais (1712-1792) ...French naturalist [nephew of Louis Godin] who was a professor in Quito” (Beolens & Watkins 2003)) (‡Eriocnemis).
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)
