Chestnut Owlet
Chestnut Owlet
Here the details of the Chestnut Owlet named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Glaucidium castaneum Orn.Monatsb. 1 p.62
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code: cheowl1
Type Locality: Andundi, Belgian Congo.
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status:
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.
castaneum / castaneus
L. castaneus chestnut-coloured < castanea chestnut < Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut.
● ex “Carouge de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 343 (syn. Icterus spurius).
SUBSPECIES
Chestnut Owlet (Etchecopar's)
SCI Name: Glaucidium castaneum etchecopari
etchecopari
Robert Daniel Etchécopar (1905-1990) French ornithologist, Director of CRMMO 1954-1976, founding President of EURING 1963 (Glaucidium).
Chestnut Owlet (Chestnut)
SCI Name: Glaucidium castaneum castaneum
castaneum / castaneus
L. castaneus chestnut-coloured < castanea chestnut < Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut.
● ex “Carouge de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 343 (syn. Icterus spurius).
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)