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Phoeniculus
''Phoeniculus'' is a genus of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. They are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa. Taxonomy The genus ''Phoeniculus'' was introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki with ''Upupa erythrorhynchus'' (John Latham (ornithologist), Latham) (the green wood hoopoe) as the type species. The genus name is a diminutive of the Ancient Greek φοινιξ/''phoinix'', φοινικος/''phoinikos'', the Phoenix (mythology), phoenix. The genus contains the following 5 species: Members of this genus have long, slightly down-curved, pointed bills with stout bases. Most spend the day in flocks of 5 to 12 birds, acrobatically climbing in trees or hanging underneath branches, sticking their bills into crevices in search of insects and other small arthropods. They may brace themselves with their long tails as woodpeckers do, but the tail feathers are not stiff like woodpeckers' and wear easily. Though their feet are strong, their floppy and boundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Wood Hoopoe
The green wood hoopoe (''Phoeniculus purpureus'') is a large, up to long tropical bird native to Africa. It is a member of the family Phoeniculidae, the wood hoopoes, and was formerly known as the red-billed wood hoopoe. Taxonomy In 1784 the English illustrator John Frederick Miller included a hand-coloured plate of the green wood hoopoe in his ''Icones animalium et plantarum''. He coined the binomial name ''Promerops purpureus'' and mistakenly specified the type locality (biology), type locality as eastern India. The green wood hoopoe is now one of five species placed in the genus ''Phoeniculus'' that was introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki. Six subspecies are recognised: * ''P. p. senegalensis'' (Louis Pierre Vieillot, Vieillot, 1822) – south Senegal to south Ghana * ''P. p. guineensis'' (Anton Reichenow, Reichenow, 1902) – north Senegal and Gambia to Chad and Central African Republic * ''P. p. niloticus'' (Oscar Neumann, Neumann, 1903) – Sud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoeniculus
''Phoeniculus'' is a genus of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. They are restricted to sub-Saharan Africa. Taxonomy The genus ''Phoeniculus'' was introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki with ''Upupa erythrorhynchus'' (John Latham (ornithologist), Latham) (the green wood hoopoe) as the type species. The genus name is a diminutive of the Ancient Greek φοινιξ/''phoinix'', φοινικος/''phoinikos'', the Phoenix (mythology), phoenix. The genus contains the following 5 species: Members of this genus have long, slightly down-curved, pointed bills with stout bases. Most spend the day in flocks of 5 to 12 birds, acrobatically climbing in trees or hanging underneath branches, sticking their bills into crevices in search of insects and other small arthropods. They may brace themselves with their long tails as woodpeckers do, but the tail feathers are not stiff like woodpeckers' and wear easily. Though their feet are strong, their floppy and boundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-headed Wood Hoopoe (cropped)
The white-headed wood hoopoe (''Phoeniculus bollei'') is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. Etymology The bird's scientific species name ''bollei'' honors Carl August Bolle (1821–1909), a German naturalist and collector. Subspecies Subspecies include: * ''Phoeniculus bollei jacksoni'' (Hartlaub, 1858) — Ruwenzori Mountains to Sudan and Kenya * ''Phoeniculus bollei bollei'' — from Liberia to the Central African Republic * ''Phoeniculus bollei okuensis'' (Serle, 1949) — Cameroon (Lake Oku) Distribution ''Phoeniculus bollei'' can be found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Habitat These birds inhabit from sea level up to , mainly in savannas and dry flowland and in montane primary forest, but they are also found in regenerating forests, as well as in deciduous woodlands. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White-headed Wood Hoopoe
The white-headed wood hoopoe (''Phoeniculus bollei'') is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. Etymology The bird's scientific species name ''bollei'' honors Carl August Bolle (1821–1909), a German naturalist and collector. Subspecies Subspecies include: * ''Phoeniculus bollei jacksoni'' (Hartlaub, 1858) — Ruwenzori Mountains to Sudan and Kenya * ''Phoeniculus bollei bollei'' — from Liberia to the Central African Republic * ''Phoeniculus bollei okuensis'' (Serle, 1949) — Cameroon ( Lake Oku) Distribution ''Phoeniculus bollei'' can be found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoeniculidae
The wood hoopoes or scimitarbills are a small African family, Phoeniculidae, of near passerine birds. They live south of the Sahara Desert and are not migratory. While the family is now restricted to Sub-Saharan Africa, fossil evidence shows that it once had a larger distribution. Fossils attributed to this family have been found in Miocene rocks in Germany. The wood hoopoes are related to the kingfishers, the rollers, and the hoopoe, forming a clade with this last according to Hackett ''et al.'' (2008). A close relationship between the hoopoe and the wood hoopoes is also supported by the shared and unique nature of their stapes. The wood hoopoes most resemble the true hoopoes with their long down-curved bills and short rounded wings. According to genetic studies, the two genera, '' Phoeniculus'' and '' Rhinopomastus'', appear to have diverged about ten million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separate subfamilies or even separate families. Description The wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet Wood Hoopoe
The violet wood hoopoe (''Phoeniculus damarensis'') is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. It is found in Angola, Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania. It looks similar to the black-billed wood hoopoe but with a red beak and a green throat. It has coppery and violet mantle feathers. Taxonomy The violet wood hoopoe was formally described in 1901 by the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant under the binomial name ''Irrisor damarensis''. The specific epithet is from Damaraland in Namibia. The violet wood hoopoe is now one of five species placed in the genus ''Phoeniculus'' that was introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki. Two subspecies are recognised: * ''P. d. damarensis'' ( Ogilvie-Grant, 1901) – Angola and Namibia * ''P. d. granti'' (Neumann, 1903) – central, southeast Kenya The subspecies ''P. d. granti'' has sometimes been considered as a separate species as its distribution is separated by a very large distance from that of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-billed Wood Hoopoe
The black-billed wood hoopoe (''Phoeniculus somaliensis'') is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. It is native to eastern Africa where it is found in wooded and scrubby areas. Description The black-billed wood hoopoe is very similar to the green wood hoopoe (''Phoeniculus purpureus'') in appearance, but lacks the greenish gloss on the head and mantle and has a black beak rather than a red one, though there is sometimes a reddish tinge at the base of the beak. The sexes are similar and the adult bird is about long. The plumage is generally black with a bluish or purplish gloss, and a row of white spots on the flight feathers giving a white bar on the wings in flight. The long, graduated tail has white spots at the edge. Distribution and habitat It is found in eastern Africa, its range including Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan at altitudes of up to about . It is a bird of woodland, scrubby areas, forest edges, and gallery forests, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Wood Hoopoe
The forest wood hoopoe (''Phoeniculus castaneiceps'') is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the .... References Phoeniculus Birds of the African tropical rainforest Birds described in 1871 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Bucerotiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Latham (ornithologist)
John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, natural history, naturalist and author. His main works were ''A General Synopsis of Birds'' (1781–1801) and ''A General History of Birds'' (1821–1828). He was able to examine specimens of Australian birds that reached England in the final twenty years of the 18th century, and was responsible for providing English names for many of them. He named some of Australia's most famous birds, including the emu, sulphur-crested cockatoo, wedge-tailed eagle, superb lyrebird, Australian magpie, magpie-lark, white-throated needletail and pheasant coucal. Latham has been called the "grandfather" of Australian ornithology. He was also the first to describe the hyacinth macaw from South America. Biography John Latham was born on 27 June 1740 at Eltham in northwest Kent. He was the eldest son of John Latham (died 1788), a surgeon, and his mother, who was a descendant of the Sothebys, in Yorkshire. He was educated at Merc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological Type (biology), type wiktionary:en:specimen, specimen (or specimens). Article 67.1 A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and called a type genus. In botanical nomenclature, these terms have no formal standing under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, code of nomenclature, but are sometimes borrowed from zoological nomenclature. In botany, the type of a genus name is a specimen (or, rarely, an illustration) which is also the type of a species name. The species name with that type can also be referred to as the type of the genus name. Names of genus and family ranks, the various subdivisions of those ranks, and some higher-rank names based on genus names, have suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
