Sulphur-billed Nuthatch
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch
Here the details of the Sulphur-billed Nuthatch named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Dendrophila oenochlamys Trans.Linn.Soc.London(2), 1 p.338 pl.53 fig.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code: subnut1
Type Locality: Guimaras, Philippine Islands.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch < Gr. σιττη sittē bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA. Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula. Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta, Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.
oenochlamys
Gr. οινος oinos wine; χλαμυς khlamus, χλαμυδος khlamudos mantle.
SUBSPECIES
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch (mesoleuca)
SCI Name: Sitta oenochlamys mesoleuca
mesoleuca / mesoleucus
Gr. μεσολευκος mesoleukos middling-white, streaked white, black gemstone with a white stripe < μεσος mesos half, middle; λευκος leukos white.
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch (isarog)
SCI Name: Sitta oenochlamys isarog
isarog
Mt. Isarog, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines.
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch (oenochlamys)
SCI Name: Sitta oenochlamys oenochlamys
oenochlamys
Gr. οινος oinos wine; χλαμυς khlamus, χλαμυδος khlamudos mantle.
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch (lilacea)
SCI Name: Sitta oenochlamys lilacea
lilacea
Mod. L. lilaceus lilac-, lilac-coloured, lilaceous < French lilac lilac < Persian lilak bluish.
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch (apo)
SCI Name: Sitta oenochlamys apo
apo
Mt. Apo, Mindanao, Philippines.
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch (zamboanga)
SCI Name: Sitta oenochlamys zamboanga
zamboanga
Zamboanga Peninsula, western Mindanao, Philippines.
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)