Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch
Here the details of the Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sitta cinnamoventris J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal Vol. 11, Part I, N° 125 p. 459 (in text)
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code: chbnut3
Type Locality: Darjeeling.
Author: Blyth
Publish Year: 1842
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch < Gr. σιττη sittē bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA. Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula. Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta, Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.
cinnamoventris
L. cinnamum cinnamon < Gr. κινναμον kinnamon cinnamon; venter, ventris belly.
SUBSPECIES
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (almorae)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris almorae
almorae
Almora, Kumaon (= Uttaranchal), India.
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (koelzi)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris koelzi
koelzi
Dr Walter Norman Koelz (1895-1989) US zoologist, botanist, anthropologist, collector in Tibet, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Iran (subsp. Aethopyga nipalensis, syn. Dendrocopos mahrattensis, subsp. Sitta cinnamoventris).
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (tonkinensis)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris tonkinensis
tonkinensis
Tonkin Protectorate, French Indochina / Tong-king or Dong-king, Vietnam.
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch (cinnamoventris)
SCI Name: Sitta cinnamoventris cinnamoventris
cinnamoventris
L. cinnamum cinnamon < Gr. κινναμον kinnamon cinnamon; venter, ventris belly.
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)