Bare-legged Owl
Bare-legged Owl
Here the details of the Bare-legged Owl named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Gymnoglaux lawrencii Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.327 pl.29
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Margarobyas
Taxonomy Code: balowl
Type Locality: Cuba; ex Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 7, 1860, p. 257.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MARGAROBYAS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Bare-legged Owl M. lawrencii) Gr. μαργαριτης margaritēs pearl; βυας buas owl; "Gymnoglaux Cabanis 1855 is a straightforward junior objective synonym of Gymnasio Bonaparte, 1854, despite the fact that no one in the last 153 years has treated it as such ... Because no other generic name is available for Gymnoglaux lawrencii Sclater and Salvin, we propose the following as a replacement ... Genus Margarobyas Olson et Suárez, nomen novum pro "Gymnoglaux Cabanis" auctorum. Type and only included species— Gymnoglaux lawrencii Sclater and Salvin, 1868. Etymology— Gr. f. margarites, a pearl, plus Gr. m. byas, an owl, in allusion to Cuba, Pearl of the Antilles. The name is masculine in gender" (Olson & Suárez 2008).
Synon. Gymnoglaux.
lawrencii
George Newbold Lawrence (1806-1895) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus, syn. Gymnocichla nudiceps (ex Myrmelastes corvinus Lawrence, 1863), subsp. Icterus leucopteryx, Margarobyas, syn. Mimus gilvus gracilis, syn. Nesoctites micromegas, syn. Pelagodroma marina (ex Thalassidroma fregetta Lawrence, 1852), subsp. Peucaea ruficauda, Pheugopedius, Pseudocolaptes, syn. Sclerurus caudacutus umbretta, syn. Tachyphonus luctuosus (ex Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence, 1868), Turdus, syn. Vermivora pinus x chrysoptera, Zentrygon).
SUBSPECIES
Bare-legged Owl (exsul)
SCI Name: Margarobyas lawrencii exsul
exsul
L. exsul exile < ex out of; solum country, land (i.e. remote, isolated, insular).
Bare-legged Owl (lawrencii)
SCI Name: Margarobyas lawrencii lawrencii
lawrencii
George Newbold Lawrence (1806-1895) US businessman, collector, ornithologist (subsp. Cichlherminia lherminieri, subsp. Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus, syn. Gymnocichla nudiceps (ex Myrmelastes corvinus Lawrence, 1863), subsp. Icterus leucopteryx, Margarobyas, syn. Mimus gilvus gracilis, syn. Nesoctites micromegas, syn. Pelagodroma marina (ex Thalassidroma fregetta Lawrence, 1852), subsp. Peucaea ruficauda, Pheugopedius, Pseudocolaptes, syn. Sclerurus caudacutus umbretta, syn. Tachyphonus luctuosus (ex Tachyphonus atricapillus Lawrence, 1868), Turdus, syn. Vermivora pinus x chrysoptera, Zentrygon).
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)