Species profile
Cyornis harterti
Cyornis harterti
Quick answer
“ Cyornis harterti Robinson & Kinnear, 1928 ” Robinson and Kinnear (1928: 256) explicitly created Cyornis unicolor harterti as a new replacement name for “ Cyornis unicolor infuscatus Hartert (nec Blyth)”, reasoning that infuscata Hartert, 1902, is preoccupied by infuscata Blyth, 1870, in the genus Cyornis Blyth, 1843 . As shown above, Hartert (1902) did not create such a name in the sense of the Code. The name harterti of Robinson and Kinnear (1928) was thus created as a new replacement name for a non-existing name. Hence, harterti Robinson & Kinnear, 1928, as published in the trinomen Cyornis unicolor harterti, is not available for nomenclatural purposes.
- Scientific name
- Cyornis harterti
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Cyornis
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