Jamaican Owl
Jamaican Owl
Here the details of the Jamaican Owl named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ephialtes grammicus BirdsJamaica p.19,note
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Pseudoscops
Taxonomy Code: jamowl1
Type Locality: Tait-Shafton, Jamaica.
Author: Gosse
Publish Year: 1847
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PSEUDOSCOPS
(Strigidae; Ϯ Jamaican Owl P. grammicus) Gr. ψευδος pseudos false; σκωψ skōps, σκωπος skōpos scops owl; "II. Gen. Otus, Cuv. (1799-1800). a) Subg. Pseudoscops, Kp. (Ephialtes Gosse et Gr.) 1) O. grammicus Goss., E. grammicus Goss. B. of Jamaica p. 19." (Kaup 1848); "Subgenus. Pseudoscops. Mit kurzen Flügeln. 1ste Schwinge so lang wie die 10te. 1ste bis 4te Schwinge schwach ausgeschnitten. Schnabel gross und vorgestreckt, Zehen nackt und geschuppt. Otus grammicus, Kp., Ephialtes, Gosse., Otus siguapa, Orb." (Kaup 1851); "Pseudoscops Kaup, Isis von Oken, 1848, col. 769. Type, by monotypy, Ephialtes grammicus Gosse." (Peters 1940, IV, 171).
grammicus
L. grammicus lettered, lined < Gr. γραμμικος grammikos linear < γραμμη grammē line < γραφω graphō to write.
Grammicus
Gr. γραμμικος grammikos engraved, inscribed, lined < γραμμη grammē line < γραφω graphō to write.
• (Bucerotidae; syn. Lophoceros † Congo Pied Hornbill L. fasciatus) "15. GRAMMICUS, Reich. — 37. fasciatus, Shaw. — 38. nasutus, L. — 39? hastatus, Cuv. (Levaill., t. 237.) — 40. limbatus, Rupp." (Bonaparte 1854); "Grammicus "Reich." Bonaparte, 1854, Conspectus Volucrum Anisodactylorum, p. 3 (not of Reichenbach, 1849). Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 149), Buceros fasciatus Shaw, 1812." (JAJ 2021).
• (Bucerotidae; syn. Lophoceros † African Grey Hornbill L. nasutus ) Reichenbach's 1849, plate XLIX, labelled Levirostres: Bucerotinae, shows the white ridges on the lower mandible of what appears to be an adult female of this hornbill; "Grammicus Reichenbach, 1849, Avium Systema Naturale, pl. XLIX (no specific names given). Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 84), Buceros poecilorhynchus de La Fresnaye, 1839 = Buceros nasutus Linnaeus, 1766." (JAJ 2021).
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)