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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