Long-tufted Screech-Owl

Long-tufted Screech-Owl / Megascops sanctaecatarinae

Long-tufted Screech-Owl

Here the details of the Long-tufted Screech-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Megascops sanctaecatarinae
Protonym:  Scops sanctae-catarinae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 6 p.37
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lotsco1
Type Locality:  Southern Brazil.
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Publish Year:  1897
IUCN Status:  

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.

sanctaecatarinae
Santa Catarina State, Brazil  < Late L. sanctus  saint  < L. sanctus  holy  < sancire  to consecrate; Mod. L. Catarina  Catherine.