Yucatan Poorwill

Yucatan Poorwill / Nyctiphrynus yucatanicus

Yucatan Poorwill

Here the details of the Yucatan Poorwill named bird below:

SCI Name:  Nyctiphrynus yucatanicus
Protonym:  Caprimulgus yucatanicus Cat.BirdsBrit.Mus. 16 p.525,575
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae /
Taxonomy Code:  yucpoo1
Type Locality:  Tizimin, Yucatan.
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Publish Year:  1892
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

NYCTIPHRYNUS
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ Ocellated Poorwill N. ocellatus) Gr. νυκτι- nukti-  night-, nocturnal  < νυξ nux, νυκτος nuktos  night; φρυνη phrunē, φρυνης phrunēs  toad; "11. Nyctiphrynus, Bp.   41. ocellatus, Tschudi. (brasilianus? Wied nec L.)   42. nuttalli, Audub. (brasilianus? Lawr.)   43. guianensis, Gm." (Bonaparte 1857); "Nyctiphrynus Bonaparte, Riv. Contemp., 9, 1857, p. 215. Type, by subsequent designation, Caprimulgus ocellatus Tschudi. (Oberholser, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 86, 1914, p. 8, note 5.)" (Peters 1940, IV, 195).
Synon. Otophanes, Ptilonycterus.

yucatanensis / yucatanica / yucatanicus
Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico/Guatemala.