Kalahari Scrub-Robin
Kalahari Scrub-Robin
Here the details of the Kalahari Scrub-Robin named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Erythropygia paena Rep.Exped.Centr.Afr. p.46
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cercotrichas
Taxonomy Code: kasrob1
Type Locality: between Latakoo and the Tropic [= north of Kuruman, northern Cape Province] .
Author: Smith, A
Publish Year: 1836
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CERCOTRICHAS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Black Scrub Robin C. podobe) Gr. κερκος kerkos tail; τριχας trikhas, τριχαδος trikhados thrush; alluding to the long, expressive tail of the Black Scrub Robin; "Cercotrichas. Unter diesen Namen vereinige ich Turdus phoenicopterus Tem. T. erythropterus, T. macrourus Lath. T. tricolor Vieill. Afr. pl. 14. Sax. leucampter Museum Berl." (Boie 1831); "Cercotrichas Boie, 1831, Isis, p. 542. Type, by subsequent designation (Finsch and Hartlaub, 1870, Vög. Ost.-Afr., p. 249), Turdus erythropterus Gmelin = Turdus podobe Müller." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 27).
Synon. Aedon, Agrobates, Erythropygia, Podobeus.
paena
Tswana name Phêna or Phênê for the Kalahari Scrub Robin; "The names given by the Natives to the objects above described, I have adopted as the trivial ones" (A. Smith 1836) (Cercotrichas).
SUBSPECIES
Kalahari Scrub-Robin (benguellensis)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena benguellensis
benguelae / benguelensis / benguellensis
Benguella (= Benguela), Angola.
Kalahari Scrub-Robin (damarensis)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena damarensis
damarensis
Damaraland, Namibia.
Kalahari Scrub-Robin (paena)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena paena
paena
Tswana name Phêna or Phênê for the Kalahari Scrub Robin; "The names given by the Natives to the objects above described, I have adopted as the trivial ones" (A. Smith 1836) (Cercotrichas).
Kalahari Scrub-Robin (oriens)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas paena oriens
oriens
L. oriens, orientis east.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)