Chestnut-headed Flufftail
Chestnut-headed Flufftail
Here the details of the Chestnut-headed Flufftail named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Crex lugeus J.Orn. 32 p.176,244
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Sarothruridae / Sarothrura
Taxonomy Code: chhflu1
Type Locality: Ugalla Country, interior of Tanganyika Territory.
Author: Böhm
Publish Year: 1884
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SAROTHRURA
(Sarothruridae; Ϯ Striped Flufftail S. affinis) Gr. σαρωτρον sarōtron broom < σαιρω sairō to sweep; ουρα oura tail; "Genus Sarothrura Heine [Corethrura Rchb. 1853 nec Gray 1846]." (Heine 1890); "Sarothrura Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, p. 319. New name for Corethrura Reichenbach, 1853 (not Corethrura Gray, 1846.) Type, by original designation, Gallinula jardinei A. Smith = Alecthelia lineata Swainson [= Crex affinis A. Smith]." (Peters 1934, II, 194).
Var. Saurothrura.
Synon. Alecthelia, Corethrura, Daseioura, Lemurolimnas.
lugens
L. lugens, lugentis mourning < lugere to mourn.
SUBSPECIES
Chestnut-headed Flufftail (lugens)
SCI Name: Sarothrura lugens lugens
lugens
L. lugens, lugentis mourning < lugere to mourn.
Chestnut-headed Flufftail (lynesi)
SCI Name: Sarothrura lugens lynesi
lynesi
Rear-Adm. Hubert Lynes (1874-1942) Royal Navy, on China Station 1910-1912, ornithologist, collector in tropical Africa (subsp. Anthus cinnamomeus, Apalis, ‡subsp. Ardeotis arabs, subsp. Batis orientalis, subsp. Cisticola brunnescens, syn. Dendrocopos major mauritanus, subsp. Galerida cristata, syn. Hirundo atrocaerulea, subsp. Lybius leucocephalus, subsp. Mirafra rufa, syn. Myrmecocichla tholloni, syn. Parus major excelsus, Sarothrura).
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)