Kurdish Wheatear
Kurdish Wheatear
Here the details of the Kurdish Wheatear named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Saxicola xanthoprymna Symb.Phys.Aves(1828) (1828), sig.dd
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Oenanthe
Taxonomy Code: retwhe3
Type Locality: Nubia.
Author: Hemprich & Ehrenberg
Publish Year: 1833
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
OENANTHE
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Wheatear O. oenanthe) Specific name Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758; "MOTTEUX, Œnanthe. Motacilla, Linn. Silvia et Turdus, Lath. Bec plus haut que large à la base, droit, très-fendu; mandibule supérieure un peu obtuse, courbée et échancrée à la pointe; l'inférieure plus courte, droite, pointue. — Ailes à penne batarde; la deuxième remige la plus longue. Esp. Motteux, Buff. — Turdus leucurus, Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Oenanthe Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 43. Type, by monotypy, "Motteux" Buffon = Turdus leucurus Gmelin." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 121); "OENANTHE Vieillot, 1816 F — "Le Motteux" Buffon; type by tautonymy = Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, 1758" (Dickinson & Christidis (eds.) 2014, 610).
Var. Oeanthe, Ananthe, Aenante, Aenanthe.
Synon. Campicola, Cercomela, Leucotoa, Penthodyta, Pentholaea, Philothamna, Saxicola, Sciocincla, Vitiflora.
oenanthe
L. oenanthe wheatear < Gr. οινανθη oinanthē unidentified bird mentioned by Aristotle, from its appearance in the vintage season < οινη oinē vine; ανθος anthos bloom, associated with the wheatear by later authors; "99. MOTACILLA. ... Oenanthe. 17. M. dorso cano, fronte alba, oculorum fascia nigra. Fn. svec. 217. Oenanthe s. Vitiflora. Jonst. av. 123. t. 45. f. 13. Will. orn. 168. t. 41. f. 4. Raj. av. 75. n. 1. Alb. av. I. p. 53. t. 55. β. Motacilla subtus pallida, rectricibus introrsum albis, dorso undulato. Fn. svec. 219. Oenanthes vitifloræ femina. Alb. av. 3. p. 50. t. 54. Habitat in Europæ apricis lapidosis. Sexu & ætate varia: cessante nocturno frigore advenit." (Linnaeus 1758) (Oenanthe).
xanthoprymna
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; πρυμνα prumna rear, stern.
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)