White-streaked Friarbird / Melitograis gilolensis
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White-streaked Friarbird
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Protonym: Tropidorhynchus gilolensis Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.390
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Meliphagidae / Melitograis
Taxonomy Code: whsfri1
Type Locality: Gilolo [= Halmahera] Island.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MELITOGRAIS
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ White-streaked Friarbird M. gilolensis) Gr. μελι meli, μελιτος melitos honey; γραις grais, γραιδος graidos old woman (i.e. old honey-seller); "Melitograis n. g. (striata nob. fusca rhachidibus in capite corporeque, præsertim anteriore, albis. Ala 102 mm. — Similis videtur Anthoch. seni. Gray Z. Pr. 1860, 349, sed pennæ alarum non apice albæ). Rostrum capite multo longius, crassiusculum, culmine frontem versus paullum elevato, postremo depresso, angulum frontalem rotundatum, latiorem formante. Rhachides pilei totius rigidi, albi. Orbita et tempora nuda. Cauda minus elongata, leviter rotundata et subemarginata. Nares longæ, valvula supera magna. Media fere inter Anthochæras et Philedones. — "Ex nova Guinea". Nomen: μελι, mel, et γραις, vetula (qs. mellaria)." (Sundevall 1872); "Melitograis Sundevall, 1872, Method. Av. Tentam., p. 50. Type, by monotypy, Melitograis striata Sundevall = Tropidorhynchus gilolensis Bonaparte." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 403).
gilolensis / giloloensis / gilolonis
Gilolo I., Moluccas, Dutch East Indies / Halmahera, Indonesia.
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)
