White-tailed Blue Flycatcher / Elminia albicauda
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White-tailed Blue Flycatcher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Elminia albicauda J.Sci.Math.Phys.Nat.Lisboa(1), 6 p.159
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Stenostiridae / Elminia
Taxonomy Code: wtbfly1
Type Locality: Caconda, Angola.
Author: Bocage
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ELMINIA
(Stenostiridae; Ϯ African Blue-flycatcher E. longicauda) St Georges d’Elmina, a port on the Dutch Gold Coast (= Ghana); "Subf. 111. MYIAGRINÆ. ... 106. Elminia, Bp. ... Elminia, Bp., est établi pour l'espèce bleue, Myiagra longicauda, Sw., Flycatchers, t. 25, dont Hartlaub fait bien à tort une Muscipeta." (Bonaparte 1854); "Elminia Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci., Paris, 38, p. 652 (nomen nudum on p. 388). Type, by original designation, Myiagra longicauda Swainson." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 467).
Synon. Erannornis.
albicauda
L. albus white; cauda tail.
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)
