Dark Batis
Dark Batis
Here the details of the Dark Batis named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Batis crypta J.Orn. 147 578-587
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Platysteiridae / Batis
Taxonomy Code: darbat1
Type Locality:
Author: Fjeldså, Bowie & Kiure
Publish Year: 2006
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BATIS
(Platysteiridae; Ϯ Cape Batis B. capensis) Gr. βατις batis, βατιδος batidos grub- or worm-eating bird mentioned by Aristotle, not further identified, but later associated with a variety of buntings, warblers and chats, including the Western Stonechat (e.g. Turner 1544); "Fam. Muscicapidae. Vigors. Sippe Batis. Char. essentialis. 1) Gefieder weiß und schwarz bey ♂, bey ♀ rostfarben und weiß. 2) Länge 5—8 Zoll. 3) Die obere Kinnlade an der Spitze über die untere gekrümmt. 4) 3te Schwungfeder die längste. 5) Die fast ganz von Federn bedeckten Nasenlöcher auf der obern Fläche des Schnabels. Arten. Africa: 1) Muscicapa strepitans Lichtenstein, Museum Berlin. 2) — melanoleuca Licht. Vaill. pl. 161. 3) — molitor Vaill. pl. 160. 4) Muscicapa fimbriata Licht. Mus. Berl. 5) — succincta Licht. — — Asien: 1) Muscicapa hirundinacea Fem. Mehrere dieser Vögel, von denen das Berliner Museum eine schöne Reihenfolge besitzt, wurden schon von Vaillant, jenem ausgezeichneten, so oft ohne ihn zu nennen benutzten, Naturforscher als einander sehr nahe stehend bezeichnet" (Boie 1833). Boie appears to have thought that the calls of the various flycatchers described by Levaillant and Lichtenstein recalled those of the Stonechat (cf. Gr. βατος batos bramble) (see molitor and rubetra); "Batis Boie, 1833, Isis von Oken, col. 880. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1879, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 4, p. 133), [Muscicapa strepitans Lichtenstein =] Muscicapa capensis Linnaeus." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 378).
Synon. Pachyprora.
crypta
Gr. κρυπτος kruptos hidden, obscure, concealed (cf. L. crypta cave, cavern).
● "the scientific name emphasises that this form was overlooked in earlier revisions of the group" (Fjeldså et al. 2006) (Batis).
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)