Encyclopedian Dictionary: May 2013

Sparkling Violetear ( Colibri coruscans )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Colibri Spix, 1824 – Violet-ears Species Colibri coruscans (Gould, 1846) – Sparkling Violetear Direct Children: Subspecies Colibri...

Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer ( Chalybura urochrysia )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Chalybura Reichenbach, 1854 Species Chalybura urochrysia (Gould, 1861) – Bronze-tailed Plumeleteer Direct Children: Subspecies Chalybura...

Gray-tailed Mountain-gem ( Lampornis castaneoventris cinereicauda )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Lampornis Swainson, 1827 – Blue-throated Hummingbirds Species Lampornis castaneoventris (Gould, 1851) Subspecies Lampornis castaneoventris...

Lampornis calolaemus ( Purple-throated Mountaingem )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Lampornis Swainson, 1827 – Blue-throated Hummingbirds Species Lampornis calolaemus (Salvin, 1865) – Purple-throated Mountain-gem, Purple-throated...

Lampornis hemileucus, ( White Bellied Mountain Gem )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Lampornis Swainson, 1827 – Blue-throated Hummingbirds Species Lampornis hemileucus (Salvin, 1865) – White-bellied Mountain-gem, White-bellied...

Taphrospilus hypostictus ( Many-spotted Hummingbird )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Aphantochroa Gould, 1853 From Monograph of the Trochilidae by J. Gould, ©1887: APHANTOCHROA HYPOSTICTA, Gould. Spotted-breasted...

Santa Marta Sabrewing ( Campylopterus phainopeplus )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Campylopterus Swainson, 1827 Species Campylopterus phainopeplus Salvin & Godman, 1879 – Santa Marta Sabrewing From Monograph...

Western Swallow-tail Hummingbird ( Eupetomena macroura hirundo )

Zoological series, Volume 13, Part 2, Issue 1 “I'm not the biggest expert on South American hummingbirds, but everywhere I've looked Gould's Western Swallow-tail is now considered a subspecies of Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, so it is now Eupetomena macroura hirundo.” Rob Fergus Bird-B-Gone Ornithologist Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata...

Androdon aequatorialis ( Tooth-billed Hummingbird, Ecuadorian Tooth-bill )

From Monograph of the Trochilidae, J. Gould (©1887) Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Androdon Gould, 1863 Species Androdon aequatorialis Gould, 1863 – Tooth-billed...

Ruby-topaz Hummingbird ( Chrysolampis mosquitus )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Chrysolampis Boie, 1831 Species Chrysolampis mosquitus (Linnaeus, 1758) – Ruby-topaz Hummingbird References and Further Reading Funk...

White-tailed Hummingbird ( Eupherusa poliocerca )

White Tailed Hummingbird Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Eupherusa Gould, 1857 Species Eupherusa poliocerca Elliot, 1871 – White-tailed Hummingbird White Tailed...

Streamer-tailed hummingbird of Jamaica ( Trochilus polytmus )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Trochilus Linnaeus, 1758 Species Trochilus polytmus Linnaeus, 1758 – Streamertail, Red-billed Streamertail References and Further...

Sword Billed Hummingbird ( Ensifera ensifera )

Sword-billed hummingbird of the Andes Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Chordata – chordates Subphylum Vertebrata – vertebrates Class Aves – Birds Order Apodiformes – Swifts, Hummingbirds Family Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Subfamily Trochilinae Genus Ensifera Lesson, 1843 Species Ensifera ensifera (Boissonneau, 1840) – Sword-billed Hummingbird References...

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird ( Archilochus colubris )

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are members of the family Trochilidae which is composed of more than 300 species, found only in the New World. The majority of hummingbird species are found in the tropics. The name, Hummingbird, originates from the noise certain species make during flight. They have short legs and small feet which are used for perching but not for walking or running. They reach a size of...

Aconitum

Aconite [æ′kənait] Aconitum, common name monkshood and wolfsbane is a group of attractive yet highly poison plants in the crowfoot family. They are native to the northern hemisphere with numerous species distributed throughout the United States and Canada. Poison resides in the roots and occasionally the flowers. The chemical produced from Aconitum napellus, the European monkshood is a powerful...

Agouti ( Dasyprocta )

Agouti [əgu′ti] A rodent native to South American, Central American and West Indies' forests of the genus Dasyprocta. It is about 15 inches in length with four hoofed toes on the front feet and three on the hind. It has practically no tail. The hair is soft brown in color. It diet consists of roots, stems, leaves and blossoms of green plants. It can run swiftly and usually able to escape predators...

Streblocerus ( Cladoceran )

Taxonomic Hierarchy Streblocerus, Cladoceran. Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, p.14, from Fryer 1974 Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Arthropoda – arthropods Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772 – crustaceans Class Branchiopoda Latreille, 1817 – branchiopods Subclass Phyllopoda Preuss, 1951 Order Diplostraca Gerstaecker, 1866 Suborder Cladocera...

Branchiura sowerbyi ( Oligochaete )

Source: Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, p. 19 Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Annelida – annelids Class Clitellata Subclass Oligochaeta – angleworms, earthworms, night crawlers Order Haplotaxida Suborder Tubificina Family Tubificidae Genus Branchiura Beddard, 1892 Species Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, 1892 References...

Dasydytes, ( Gastrotrich )

Source: Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States Dasydytes, gastrotrich Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal Phylum Gastrotricha Metschnikoff, 1865 – gastrotriches, gastrotrichs Order Chaetonotida Remane, 1924 Family Dasydytidae Daday, 1905 Genus Dasydytes Gosse, 1851 Direct Children: Subgenus Dasydytes (Chitonodytes) Remane, 1936 Subgenus Dasydytes (Dasydytes)...

Chaetonotus ( Gastrotrich )

Chaetonotus, Gastrotrich Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, p. 19 Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal Phylum Gastrotricha Metschnikoff, 1865 – gastrotriches, gastrotrichs Order Chaetonotida Remane, 1924 Family Chaetonotidae Gosse, 1864 Genus Chaetonotus Ehrenberg, 1830 Subgenus Chaetonotus (Captochaetus) Kisielewski, 1997 Species Chaetonotus gastrocyaneus...

Elliptio Spinosa ( Altamaha spinymussel )

Source: Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States From Burch, 1973, Biota Freshwater Ecosystems, E.P.A. Identification Manual No. 11:1-176 Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal Phylum Mollusca – molluscs, mollusks Class Bivalvia Linnaeus, 1758 – bivalves, clams Subclass Palaeoheterodonta Newell, 1965 Order Unionoida Stoliczka, 1871 Family Unionidae Fleming, 1828 Genus Elliptio...

Io fluvialis ( spiny riversnail )

Source: Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, pg. 19, cites source as from Tryon, 1875, Smithson. Misc. Coll. 253:1-435 Taxonomic Hierarchy Kingdom Animalia – Animal, animals Phylum Mollusca – molluscs, mollusks Class Gastropoda Cuvier, 1797 – gastropods, slugs, snails Order Neotaenioglossa Family Pleuroceridae Genus Io I. Lea, 1831 Species Io fluvialis (Say,...