Blackish-gray Antshrike

Blackish-gray Antshrike / Thamnophilus nigrocinereus

Blackish-gray Antshrike

Here the details of the Blackish-gray Antshrike named bird below:

SCI Name:  Thamnophilus nigrocinereus
Protonym:  Thamnophilus nigrocinereus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt23 no.285 p.19 pl.81
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blgant2
Type Locality:  Para, Brazil = Rio Tocantins.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

THAMNOPHILUS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Barred Antshrike T. doliatus) Gr. θαμνος thamnos  bush; φιλος philos  lover; "BATARA (DE AZARA), Thamnophilus.  Lanius, Turdus, Lin. Gm. Lath.  Bec droit à la base, robuste, convexe en dessus, comprimé latéralement; mandibule supérieure échancrée, ou dentée, et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure entaillée, aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Bouche ciliée. Ailes courtes arrondies.  Esp. Pie-Grièche rayée. — Fourmillier huppé, Buff.   ...   Tamnophilus [ταμνος, frutexφιλεω, gaudeo]." (Vieillot 1816); "Thamnophilus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 40. Type, by subsequent designation, Lanius doliatus Linné (Swainson, Zool. Journ., 1, 1824, p. 301)." (Peters 1951, VII, 162).
Var. Thamnoplius, Tamnophilus.   
Synon. Abalius, Erionotus, Rhopochares.

thamnophilus
Gr. θαμνος thamnos  bush; φιλος philos  loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

nigrocinereus
L. niger  black, dark; cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris ashes.

SUBSPECIES

Blackish-gray Antshrike (cinereoniger)
SCI Name: Thamnophilus nigrocinereus cinereoniger
cinereoniger
L. cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris  ashes; niger  black, dark (cf. Mod. L. cinereoniger  dark-grey).

Blackish-gray Antshrike (tschudii)
SCI Name: Thamnophilus nigrocinereus tschudii
tschudi / tschudii
Johann Jakob Baron von Tschudi (1818-1889) Swiss explorer, collector in Peru 1838-1842 (Ampelioides, subsp. Chamaepetes goudotii, syn. Empidonomus varius rufinus, syn. Eubucco bourcierii glaucogularis, subsp. Pardirallus sanguinolentus, subsp. Piprites chloris, syn. Piranga flava lutea, syn. Thalurania furcata jelskii, syn. Thalurania furcata nigrofasciata, subsp. Thamnophilus nigrocinereus).

Blackish-gray Antshrike (huberi)
SCI Name: Thamnophilus nigrocinereus huberi
huberi
● Dr Wharton Huber (1877-1942) US zoologist at Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, collector in Nicaragua 1922, the USA and Mexico 1927-1934 (syn. Megascops watsonii).
● Dr Jacques Huber (1867-1914) Swiss botanist, founder (1895) of the Amazonicum Herbarium Musei Paraensis (now the Goeldi Mus. Herbarium) (subsp. Tangara flava, subsp. Thamnophilus nigrocinereus).

Blackish-gray Antshrike (nigrocinereus)
SCI Name: Thamnophilus nigrocinereus nigrocinereus
nigrocinereus
L. niger  black, dark; cinereus  ash-coloured  < cinis, cineris ashes.

Blackish-gray Antshrike (kulczynskii)
SCI Name: Thamnophilus nigrocinereus kulczynskii
kulczynskii
Dr Władysław Jan Kulczyński (1854-1919) Polish zoologist, arachnologist, conservationist (subsp. Thamnophilus nigrocinereus).