Apalis Argentea Bird
Apalis Argentea Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Apalis argentea Bull.Br.Orn.Club 61 p.47
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Apalis
Taxonomy Code: kunapa1
Type Locality: forest above Ujamba, Mt. Kungwe (= Nkungwe), western Tanganyika.
Author: Moreau
Publish Year: 1941
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
APALIS
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Bar-throated Apalis A. thoracica) Gr. ἁπαλος hapalos soft, delicate (cf. Gotch 1981, erroneously suggested Apalis might be from an African name); "[plate 119] APALIS thoracica ... [text] APALIS thoracia [sic]. Gorget Warbler. Family Sylviadæ. Sub-fam: Sylvianæ. Genus (?) Apalis. GENERIC (?) CHARACTER. General structue [sic] of Prinea, but the bill shorter, the plumage more compact, and the outer toe not connected to the middle as far as the first joint. ... Le Plastron Noir. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. 3 pl. 123. f. 1 male. 2 fem. Motacilla thoracia [sic]. Nat. Miss [sic]. 22. pl. 969. THIS is one of the pretty warblers of Southern Africa, discovered by Le Vaillant: it is very common and widely distributed in the interior, but rare near the Cape. ... That this bird is of a tenuirostral type, is almost certain; seeing that it is an obvious representation of Motacilla, Pachycephala, Tamatia, Trichas, Charadrius, and many other collared groups: but whether it forms part of the genus Prinea, or represents the tenuirostral genus between that and Culicivora, is very uncertain. We suspect that this latter station is filled by the Taylor-Warblers of India, not one of which is to be found in our public Museums." (Swainson 1832); "Apalis Swainson, 1832, Zool. Illus., ser. 2, 3, p. 119, pl. 119. Type, by monotypy, Motacilla thoracica Shaw and Nodder." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 154).
Var. Hapalis.
Synon. Chlorodyta, Drymoterpe, Euprinodes.
argentea / argenteus
L. argenteus of silver, silvery < argentum, argenti silver.
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)