Cinnamon Screech-Owl
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Cinnamon Screech-Owl
Here the details of the Cinnamon Screech-Owl named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Otus petersoni WilsonBull. 98 p.1-14,front.
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Megascops
Taxonomy Code: cinsco1
Type Locality:
Author: Fitzpatrick & O''Neill
Publish Year: 1986
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MEGASCOPS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Eastern Screech Owl M. asio) Gr. μεγας megas, μεγαλη megalē great; genus Scops Brünnich, 1772, owl. "5tes Subgenus. Megascops, Kp., Asiones, Schleg. Schnabel vorgestreckt. Flügel kurz und stumpf. 1ste Schwinge so lang wie die 10te. 1ste bis 5te Schwinge an der Aussen- und Innenfahne deutlich ausgeschnitten. Fusswurzel befiedert. Zehen meist vollständig nackt. 8. Scops asio, Gr. Less." (Kaup 1851). The Eastern Screech Owl and its New World congeners were formerly placed in the genus Scops (= Otus).
Synon. Athene, Gymnasio, Pseudociccaba.
petersoni
● Peterson’s Pocket, Cairns, Queensland, Australia (syn. Bolemoreus frenatus).
● Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996) US pioneer field ornithologist, artist (Megascops).
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)
