The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Grypus
(Trochilidae; syn. Ramphodon † Saw-billed Hermit R. naevius) Gr. γρυπος grupos hook-nosed (i.e. with serrated bill) < γρυποομαι grupoomai to become hooked; "GENUS III. GRYPUS. Majus; rostro trigono, rectiusculo, versus apicem lateraliter serrato, compresso, ad apicem adunco, maxilla inferiore ad apicem ascendente; cauda latiuscula, aequali, non elongata. SPECIES 1. GRYPUS RUFICOLLIS. TAB. LXXX. Fig. 3." (von Spix 1824); "Grypus von Spix, 1824, Avium species novae Brasiliam, I, p. 79 (not of Germar, 1817 (Coleoptera)). Type, by monotypy, Grypus ruficollis von Spix, 1824 = Trochilus naevius Dumont, 1818." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Gryphus.
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