Black-backed Thornbill

Black-backed Thornbill / Ramphomicron dorsale

Black-backed Thornbill

Here the details of the Black-backed Thornbill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ramphomicron dorsale
Protonym:  Rhamphomicron dorsale Ibis p.172 pl.5
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blbtho1
Type Locality:  Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 2000 feet <?, 9200 feet 9, Colombia.
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Publish Year:  1880
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

RAMPHOMICRON
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Purple-backed Thornbill R. microrhynchum) Gr. ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; μικρον mikron  little; "Bec extrêmement petit et mince, droit, cylindrique" (Boissonneau 1840); "*182. Ramphomicron, Bp. (Mellisuga p. Gr.)   Amer. m.  7.  1. ORNISMYA microrhyncha, Boiss. (brachyrhynchus, Fraser) Mag. Zool. 1840. Ois. t. 16. ex S.ta Fe de Bogota.   2. ORNISMYA heteropogon, Boiss. (corruscus, Fraser) Rev. Zool. 1839.-Mag. Zool. 1840. Ois. t. 12. ex S.ta Fe de Bogota.   3. TROCHILUS ruficeps, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1846. ex Bolivia.   4. TROCHILUS abeillii, Delattre, Rev. Zool. 1839. p. 16. ex Jalapa. [see Abeillia]  ...   5. TROCHILUS sabinae, Bourc. Ann. Sc. Lyon 1846. ex N. Granada.   6. TROCHILUS inornatus, Gould, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1846. p. 89. ex Bolivia.   7. TROCHILUS melanogenys, Fraser, Pr. Zool. Soc. 1840. p. 18. Species 5, 6, 7, bonae, sed valde abnormes!" (Bonaparte 1850); "Ramphomicron Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, Mar., 1850, p. 79. Type, by subsequent designation, Ornismya microrhyncha Boissoneau. (Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 30, 8 Apr., 1850, p. 382)." (Peters 1945, V, 117).
Var. Ramphomicrus., Rhamphomicron, Rhamphomicrum, Rhamphomicrus.
Synon. Mychrorynchus.

dorsale / dorsalis
L. dorsalis (properly dorsualis)  dorsal, of the back  < dorsum  back.
● ex “Chorlito à dos noir” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.) 1800-1802 (syn. Calidris melanotos).