Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl

Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium costaricanum

Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl

Here the details of the Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Glaucidium costaricanum
Protonym:  Glaucidium jardinii costaricanum Auk 54 p.304
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  crpowl
Type Locality:  Costa Rica.
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Publish Year:  1937
IUCN Status:  

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.

costaricanum / costaricensis
Costa Rica (Spanish costa rica rich coast, from its supposed gold resources).