Tamaulipas Pygmy-Owl

Tamaulipas Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium sanchezi

Tamaulipas Pygmy-Owl

Here the details of the Tamaulipas Pygmy-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Glaucidium sanchezi
Protonym:  Glaucidium sanchezi Occ.Pap.Mus.Zool.LSU no.22 p.1-4
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tapowl1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  1949
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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.

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Carlos Sánchez Mejorada, Jr. (fl. 1948) Mexican sponsor, naturalist (Glaucidium).