Highland Tinamou
Highland Tinamou
Here the details of the Highland Tinamou named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tinamus Bonapartei ListBirdsBrit.Mus. pt5 p.97
Taxonomy: Tinamiformes / Tinamidae / Nothocercus
Taxonomy Code: higtin1
Type Locality: valley of Aragua, Venezuela.
Author: Gray, GR
Publish Year: 1867
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NOTHOCERCUS
(Tinamidae; Ϯ Tawny-breasted Tinamou N. julius) Gr. νοθος nothos spurious; κερκος kerkos tail; "Subfamilia 23. Tinaminæ. Af. CRYPTUREÆ. ... 98. Nothocercus, Bp. 330. bourcieri, Bp. 331. julius, Bp. 332. delattrii, Bp. (cinnamomeus? Less.) 333. sallæi, Bp. 334. noctivagus, Wied. (zabele, Spix.) 335. variegatus, Gm. 336. atricapillus, Tschudi" (Bonaparte 1856); "Nothocercus Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 881. Type, by subsequent designation, Tinamus julius Bonaparte (Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 27, 1895, p. 509.)" (Peters 1931, I, 14).
Var. Nothocernus.
bonapartei
Jules Laurent Lucien, later called Charles Lucien Jules Laurent 2nd Prince of Canino and of Musignano and Prince Bonaparte (1803-1857) French ornithologist (syn. Calidris fuscicollis, Coeligena, syn. Diglossa lafresnayii, syn. Emberiza leucocephalos, Gymnobucco, subsp. Loriculus philippensis, Nothocercus, syn. Pheucticus chrysopeplus, subsp. Turdus viscivorus) (see bonapartii).
SUBSPECIES
Highland Tinamou (South American)
SCI Name: Nothocercus bonapartei [bonapartei Group]
NOTHOCERCUS
(Tinamidae; Ϯ Tawny-breasted Tinamou N. julius) Gr. νοθος nothos spurious; κερκος kerkos tail; "Subfamilia 23. Tinaminæ. Af. CRYPTUREÆ. ... 98. Nothocercus, Bp. 330. bourcieri, Bp. 331. julius, Bp. 332. delattrii, Bp. (cinnamomeus? Less.) 333. sallæi, Bp. 334. noctivagus, Wied. (zabele, Spix.) 335. variegatus, Gm. 336. atricapillus, Tschudi" (Bonaparte 1856); "Nothocercus Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 881. Type, by subsequent designation, Tinamus julius Bonaparte (Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 27, 1895, p. 509.)" (Peters 1931, I, 14).
Var. Nothocernus.
Highland Tinamou (Costa Rican)
SCI Name: Nothocercus bonapartei frantzii
frantzii
Alexander von Frantzius (1821-1877) German physician, naturalist, anthropologist, collector in Brazil 1849-1853, resident in Costa Rica 1853-1868 (Catharus, Elaenia, Nothocercus, syn. Ortalis vetula, Pteroglossus, Semnornis, subsp. Tangara icterocephala).
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)