Yungas Pygmy-Owl

Yungas Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium bolivianum

Yungas Pygmy-Owl

Here the details of the Yungas Pygmy-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Glaucidium bolivianum
Protonym:  Glaucidium bolivianum Okol.Vogel 13 p.36-45
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  yupowl1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  1991
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DEFINITIONS

GLAUCIDIUM
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern Pygmy Owl G. passerinum) Gr. γλαυκιδιον glaukidion  little owl, owlet  < dim. γλαυξ glaux, γλαυκος glaukos  owl; "IV. Fam. Strigidae   ...  Glaucidium: St. nana Tem; passerina Lin. u. a. m." (Boie 1826); "Glaucidium Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 970. Type, by subsequent designation, Strix passerina Linné (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 6)." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 127).
Var. Gaucidium.
Synon. Microglaux, Microptynx, Noctua, Nyctipetes, Phalaenopsis, Smithiglaux, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx.

boliviae / boliviana / bolivianum / bolivianus / boliviensis
Bolivia (named after Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) "The Liberator", Venezuelan revolutionary, who helped to expel the Spaniards from their South American empire).