Cloud-scraping Cisticola
Cloud-scraping Cisticola
Here the details of the Cloud-scraping Cisticola named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cisticola dambo Bull.Br.Orn.Club 52 p.5
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code: clscis1
Type Locality: Nasondoye, southern Belgian Congo, lat. 10 1/2° S., long. 25° E.; altitude 3,300 feet.
Author: Lynes
Publish Year: 1931
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis little basket < dim. κιστη kistē basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola. ... 2. Zistensänger. Cisticola. E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich. Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken. L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119. Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.
cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis little basket < dim. κιστη kistē basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.
dambo
Swahili dambo peaty wet grassland.
SUBSPECIES
Cloud-scraping Cisticola (dambo)
SCI Name: Cisticola dambo dambo
dambo
Swahili dambo peaty wet grassland.
Cloud-scraping Cisticola (kasai)
SCI Name: Cisticola dambo kasai
kasai / kasaica / kasaicus
Kasai Province, Belgian Congo (= Zaïre = DR Congo).
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)