Western Emerald

SCI Name:  Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus
Protonym:  Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(28)2 p.308
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Chlorostilbon
Taxonomy Code:  weseme1
Type Locality:  Vicinity of Quito, Ecuador.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1860
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CHLOROSTILBON
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Glittering-bellied Emerald C. lucidus pucherani) Gr. χλωρος khlōros  green; στιλβων stilbōn, στιλβοντος stilbontos  shining, an epithet of the planet Mercury (cf. στιλβη stilbē  lamp); "[plate] CHLOROSTILBONA PRASINA.   ...   [text] CHLOROSTILBON PRASINUS. Brazilian Emerald.   ...   The male has the upper and under surface yellowish green, with a golden lustre on the crown of the head and the sides of the neck; wings purplish brown; tail black, glossed with steel-blue; throat brilliant grass-green" (Gould 1853); "Chlorostilbon Gould, Monogr. Trochil., pt. 5, May, 1853, pl. [14] and text [= 5, pl. 355 of volume]. Type, by monotypy, Chlorostilbon prasinus Gould, not of authors, = Trochilus pucherani Bourcier." (Peters, 1945, V, p. 36). 
Var. Chlorostilbona.     
Synon. Chloauges, Chlorestes, Chlorolampis, Chrysomirus, Colubris, Erasmia, Halia, Marsyas, Mellisuga, Merion, Panychlora, Prasitis, Riccordia, Sporadinus.

melanorhyncha / melanorhynchos / melanorhynchus
Late Med. L. melanorhynchos  black-billed  < Gr. μελας melas, μελανος  melanos  black; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Black-billed Tropic Bird” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Phaethon rubricauda).

SUBSPECIES

Western Emerald (melanorhynchus)
SCI Name: Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus melanorhynchus
melanorhyncha / melanorhynchos / melanorhynchus
Late Med. L. melanorhynchos  black-billed  < Gr. μελας melas, μελανος  melanos  black; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.
● ex “Black-billed Tropic Bird” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Phaethon rubricauda).

Western Emerald (pumilus)
SCI Name: Chlorostilbon melanorhynchus pumilus
pumilum / pumilus
L. pumilus dwarf.
● ex “Petite Perruche de l’isle de Luçon, 1ère ésp.” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Loriculus galgulus).
● ex “Crabier des Philippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 898, and “Petit Crabier” of de Buffon 1770-1786 (syn. Zebrilus undulatus).