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"Racket-tailed Thorntail" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But if there is a Dark-eyed White-eye, then sure, why not?

I was taken aback for a moment... I thought that Thorntails were in Furnariidae, not Trochilidae. But that's Spinetails... and Thornbirds. So okay, carry on SACC.
 
I was taken aback for a moment... I thought that Thorntails were in Furnariidae, not Trochilidae. But that's Spinetails... and Thornbirds. So okay, carry on SACC.

Ah yes...and then there's the following names, shared across different orders:

Spinetail: Apodidae (e.g. Zoonavena, Mearnsia), Furnariidae (e.g. Cranioleuca, Synallaxis)

Sicklebill: Trochilidae (Eutoxeres), Paradisaeidae (Drepanornis, Epimachus)

Thornbill: Trochilidae (Ramphomicron, Chalcostigma), Acanthizidae (Acanthiza)

Racket-tail (or Racquet-tail): Trochilidae (Ocreatus), Psittacidae (Prioniturus)

Note that at least one family in each pair is apodiform. Additionally, "Vulture" can now be considered to be shared between two orders, with the separation of Cathartiformes from Accipitriformes.

Liam
 
Ah yes...and then there's the following names, shared across different orders:

Spinetail: Apodidae (e.g. Zoonavena, Mearnsia), Furnariidae (e.g. Cranioleuca, Synallaxis)

Sicklebill: Trochilidae (Eutoxeres), Paradisaeidae (Drepanornis, Epimachus)

Thornbill: Trochilidae (Ramphomicron, Chalcostigma), Acanthizidae (Acanthiza)

Racket-tail (or Racquet-tail): Trochilidae (Ocreatus), Psittacidae (Prioniturus)

Note that at least one family in each pair is apodiform. Additionally, "Vulture" can now be considered to be shared between two orders, with the separation of Cathartiformes from Accipitriformes.

Liam

As well as grosbeaks, finches, buntings, tanagers, sparrows, flycatchers, warblers, and on and on. English names have described characteristics rather than phylogeny for ages, because after all the phylogeny is why we have the Latin names and taxonomy! The recent push to have English names "match" taxonomy just for the sake of matching seems fairly Quixotic. And in some cases downright silly, as in this case when it creates a nonsensical/oxymoronic name.
 
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Ah yes...and then there's the following names, shared across different orders:

Spinetail: Apodidae (e.g. Zoonavena, Mearnsia), Furnariidae (e.g. Cranioleuca, Synallaxis)

Sicklebill: Trochilidae (Eutoxeres), Paradisaeidae (Drepanornis, Epimachus)

Thornbill: Trochilidae (Ramphomicron, Chalcostigma), Acanthizidae (Acanthiza)

Racket-tail (or Racquet-tail): Trochilidae (Ocreatus), Psittacidae (Prioniturus)

Note that at least one family in each pair is apodiform. Additionally, "Vulture" can now be considered to be shared between two orders, with the separation of Cathartiformes from Accipitriformes.

Liam

At least they're not as bad as genera that birds share with plants! eg Oenanthe and Prunella :smoke:
 
Campylopterus calcirupicola

A cryptic new species of hummingbird of the Campylopterus largipennis complex (Aves: Trochilidae)
LEONARDO ESTEVES LOPES, MARCELO FERREIRA DE VASCONCELOS, LUIZ PEDREIRA GONZAGA

Abstract

A new species of Campylopterus sabrewing is described from eastern Brazilian tropical dry forests occurring below 900 m asl. Its holotype (MZUSP 99024) is an adult female from Sítio Duboca (16°43’19’’S, 43°58’20’’W, elevation 840 m), municipality of Montes Claros, state of Minas Gerais. A taxonomic revision based on more than 1,000 museum specimens revealed that the new taxon, together with C. largipennis, C. diamantinensis and C. obscurus (with C. aequatorialis considered as a subjective junior synonym) should be ranked as species. We provide a key to permit easy identification of the four species. The new species is very similar to the parapatric C. diamantinensis of high altitude “campos rupestres” above 1,000 m asl, differing from it by its smaller size and longer light tail tips, as well as by sternum measurements. Given the several threats faced by the habitat to which the new species is endemic, we propose to consider it as Vulnerable under the IUCN criteria.

Keywords

cryptic biodiversity, Neotropical, Trochilidae, tropical dry forests, Aves

http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4268.1.1


Campylopterus calcirupicola sp. nov

IOC Updates Diary Jan 3

Accept newly described Dry-forest Sabrewing. ENG provisional
 
Proposal (780) to SACC

Change the generic classification of the Trochilinae (part 1)

Proposal (781) to SACC

Change the generic classification of the Trochilinae (part 2)

PASSED (18 April 2019):

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 1B. Recognize Leucippus and Phaeochroa as distinct monospecific genera (Proposal 781.01)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 2B. Resurrect the genus Thaumasius for Leucippus baeri and L. taczanowskii (Proposal 781.02)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 3B. Lump Aphantochroa into Eupetomena (Proposal 781.03)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 4A. Resurrect the monospecific genus Talaphorus for Leucippus chlorocercus (Proposal 780.04)

Change the generic Saucerottia for Amazilia saucerottei, A. edward, A. cyanifrons, A. castaneiventris, A. viridigaster, and A. tobaci (Proposal 781.06)

Change the generic Amazilia to A. tzacatl and extralimital A. yucatanensis and A. rutila (Proposal 780.07)

Change the generic Amazilis as a monospecific genus for the species amazilia (Proposal 781.09)

Change the generic Uranomitra for the species franciae (Proposal 781.11)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 10B. Expand Chrysuronia to include seven additional species formerly placed in Lepidopyga, Hylocharis, and Amazilia (Proposal 781.10)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 11A. Continue to separate albicollis in the monospecific genus Leucochloris recognizing its genetic distinctiveness and unique plumage (Proposal 781.11)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 12A. Recognize Chionomesa for the species fimbriata and lactea (Proposal 781.12)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini (part 2): 13A. Recognize a restricted Hylocharis for the species sapphirina and chrysura (Proposal 781.13)

Change the genericon of the Trochilini (part 2): 14A. Recognize a new genus for the species chionogaster and viridicauda (here called Elliotia, but this is preoccupied; its name to be supplied in a manuscript submitted) (Proposal 781)

Change the generic Polyerata for the species amabilis, decora, and rosenbergi (Proposal 781.15)

Change the generic classification of the Trochilini Expand Chlorestes to include three species formerly in the genera Damophila and Hylocharis (Proposal 781.16)

Change the generic Goethalsia into Goldmania (Proposal 780.8; 18)
 
I like Limestone Sabrewing because limestone is in its Latin name and its the limestone why the forest are dry?
Etymology. The name calcirupicola is Latin, composed by “calx”, calcis, limestone; “rupes”, steep rocks; and “cola”, dwelling
 
Campylopterus calcirupicola

TiF Update August 5:

The Dry Forest Sabrewing, Campylopterus calcirupicola, is recognized as a separate species related to the Gray-breasted Sabrewing, Campylopterus largipennis. See SACC #756 and Lopes et al. (2017). Lopes et al. and SACC #755 suggest there are additional species in this complex.
 

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