Bearded Scrub-Robin
Bearded Scrub-Robin
Here the details of the Bearded Scrub-Robin named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Thamnobia quadrivirgata Orn.Centralbl. 4 p.114
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cercotrichas
Taxonomy Code: besrob1
Type Locality: Kapini [=Kipini], lower Tana River [reference not verified] .
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1879
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.
quadrivirgata
L. quadri- four- < quattuor four; virgatus striped < virga streak.
SUBSPECIES
Bearded Scrub-Robin (Bearded)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas quadrivirgata quadrivirgata
quadrivirgata
L. quadri- four- < quattuor four; virgatus striped < virga streak.
Bearded Scrub-Robin (Zanzibar)
SCI Name: Cercotrichas quadrivirgata greenwayi
greenwayi
● Lt.-Commander James Cowan Greenway, Jr. (1903-1989) US Navy, ornithologist at MCZ 1932-1960, AMNH 1960-1989, conservationist (subsp. Trochalopteron formosum).
● Dr Percy James Greenway (1897-1980) South African botanist, East African Agricultural Research Station 1927-1950, East African Herbarium 1950-1958 (subsp. Tychaedon quadrivirgata).
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)