Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl

Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium nubicola

Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl

Here the details of the Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Glaucidium nubicola
Protonym:  Glaucidium nubicola Auk 116 p.305-315,frontcover.
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  clopyo1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  1999
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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.

nubicola / nubicolus
Mod. L. nubicola  cloud-dweller  < L. nubes, nubis  cloud; -cola  dweller  < colere  to inhabit.