Buff-sided Robin
Buff-sided Robin
Here the details of the Buff-sided Robin named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Petroica? cerviniventris Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part XXV, Meeting of November 10, 1857 p. 221-222
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Poecilodryas
Taxonomy Code: busrob1
Type Locality: Victoria River, northwestern Australia.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1858
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
POECILODRYAS
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Buff-sided Robin P. cerviniventris) Gr. ποικιλος poikilos variegated; δρυας druas, δρυαδος druados dryad, tree-nymph < δρυς drus, δρυος druos tree; "Genus PŒCILODRYAS, Gould. On reference to the figures of the birds I have called Petroica? cerviniventris and P. superciliosa in the third volume of the folio edition and in the Supplement, it will at once be seen that these two species cannot be associated with either of the preceding genera [Amaurodryas, Melanodryas], and must be separated into a new one; this division I have accordingly made, and assigned to it the above appellation. Sp. 171. PŒCILODRYAS CERVINIVENTRIS, Gould. ... P. superciliosa; to this species the one here described is very nearly allied—so nearly, in fact, that, although I have treated them as distinct, a suspicion has arisen in my mind that they may be the sexes of one and the same species; they both differ in form from the typical or true Petroicæ, and are doubtless representatives of each other in the respective countries they inhabit, the P. superciliosa dwelling on the eastern parts of the continent, and the P. cerviniventris in the western." (Gould 1865); "Poecilodryas Gould, 1865, Handb. Birds Australia, 1, p. 287. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1879, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 4, pp. 240, 242), Petroica? cerviniventris Gould." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 575).
Var. Paecilodryos.
Synon. Leucophantes.
cerviniventris
L. cervinus stag-coloured < cervus stag; venter, ventris belly.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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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)