Violet Woodhoopoe

SCI Name:  Phoeniculus damarensis
Protonym:  Irrisor damarensis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 12 p.38
Taxonomy:  Bucerotiformes / Phoeniculidae / Phoeniculus
Taxonomy Code:  viowoo1
Type Locality:  Damaraland; the types are specimens d''-n'' in Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 16, 1892, p. 19, viz. Otjimbinque, Elephant Vley Ovaquenyama, Okavango River and ''Damaraland.''
Author:  Ogilvie-Grant
Publish Year:  1901
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PHOENICULUS
(Phoeniculidae; Ϯ Green Wood-hoopoe P. purpureus) Dim. < Gr. φοινιξ phoinix, φοινικος phoinikos  crimson, red (in allusion to the thin red bill); "RODZAY 1. (30.)  ZJAWKA.  PHOENICULUS.  Dziób długi, sczupty, łukowaty, z góry i zę spodu zaokrąglony, z boków ściśniony, ostro kończysty.  ...  n.p. Upupa erythrorhynchos. LATH.  Známy jch dwa gatunki. Jeden z nich żyie w południowéy Azyi, a drugi w Afryce.  ...  Phoeniculus unimaculatus. n.  ..."Nectarinia erythrorhynchos (Upupa erythrorhynchos LATH.) e Guinea."   ...  Phoeniculus notatus. n.  ...  "Guepier à queue etagée (Upupa erythrorhynchos) d'Asie."" (Jarocki 1821); "Phoeniculus Jarocki, Zoologia, 2, 1821, p. 63. Type, by monotypy, Upupa erythrorhynchus Latham." (Peters 1945, V, 250). 
Synon. Irrisor.

damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.

SUBSPECIES

Violet Woodhoopoe (Violet)
SCI Name: Phoeniculus damarensis damarensis
damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.

Violet Woodhoopoe (Grant's)
SCI Name: Phoeniculus damarensis granti
granti
● William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863-1924) English ornithologist at BMNH 1882-1918 (subsp. Acanthisitta chloris, subsp. Accipiter nisus, subsp. Aerodramus vanikorensis, syn. Alopecoenas beccarii solomonensis, subsp. Camaroptera chloronota, Horizocerus, syn. Lophura nycthemera, syn. Melaenornis pallida parvus, subsp. Microptilotis mimikae, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, syn. Neocossyphus poensis praepectoralis, Ninox, syn. Oriolus szalayi, syn. Pellorneum ruficeps olivaceum, Penelope, subsp. Ptiloprora plumbea, Ptilopsis, subsp. Rhipidura rufifrons (ex Rhipidura harterti Ogilvie-Grant), subsp. Sericornis spilodera, subsp. Sturnus vulgaris, Sula).
● Capt. Claude Henry Baxter Grant (1878-1958) British ornithologist at BMNH 1898-1903, 1932-1958, in East Africa 1916-1932 (subsp. Bradypterus lopezi, subsp. Crithagra mozambica, subsp. Cyanomitra olivacea, syn. Malimbus malimbicus, subsp. Phoeniculus damarensis, syn. Pyrenestes ostrinus minor, subsp. Sheppardia poensis, subsp. Smutsornis africanus, subsp. Terpsiphone viridis, subsp. Treron delalandii).
● Lt.-Col. James Augustus Grant (1827-1892) British Army, explorer with Speke in East Africa 1860-1863 (syn. Guttera pucherani).
● Robert Grant (1854-1923) Scottish miner and immigrant to Australia 1879, taxidermist at Australian Mus. 1887-1917, collector, explorer (subsp. Paradisaea raggiana).