California Thrasher
California Thrasher
Here the details of the California Thrasher named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Harpes rediviva Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 2 p.264
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Mimidae / Toxostoma
Taxonomy Code: calthr
Type Locality: near Monterey, in Upper California.
Author: Gambel
Publish Year: 1845
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TOXOSTOMA
(Mimidae; Ϯ Curve-billed Thrasher T. curvirostre) Gr. τοξον toxon bow, arch; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos mouth; "Genus Toxostoma, Bogenschnabel. (Genus novum.) 54. Toxostoma Vetula (species nova). Notaeo toto e fuliginoso-cinereo, exclusa alae flexura albida et macula in apice rectricum quaternarum, externarum candida (versus rectrices interiores sensim minore); gastraeo toto albido, fusco-cinereo nubilo; rostro arcuato nigro. Adult. Chietotottotl Hernand. Thes. p. 31. cap. 80." (Wagler 1831); "Toxostoma Wagler, 1831, Isis von Oken, 24, p. 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 449).
Var. Toxastoma, Taxostoma.
Synon. Antimimus, Harpes, Harporhynchus, Methriopterus.
rediviva / redivivum
L. redivivum renovated, reinstated < redire to return.
● “This curious bird was first seen by the naturalists in La Pérouse’s expedition, as he tells us, who considered it a Promerops ...No further account of this bird (as far as I can learn) has been given since the time of La Pérouse until now” (Gambel 1845) (Toxostoma).
SUBSPECIES
California Thrasher (sonomae)
SCI Name: Toxostoma redivivum sonomae
sonomae
Sonoma County, California, USA.
California Thrasher (redivivum)
SCI Name: Toxostoma redivivum redivivum
rediviva / redivivum
L. redivivum renovated, reinstated < redire to return.
● “This curious bird was first seen by the naturalists in La Pérouse’s expedition, as he tells us, who considered it a Promerops ...No further account of this bird (as far as I can learn) has been given since the time of La Pérouse until now” (Gambel 1845) (Toxostoma).
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)