Southern Scrub-Robin
Southern Scrub-Robin
Here the details of the Southern Scrub-Robin named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Drymodes brunneopygia Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1840) (1840), Pt8 no.95 p.170
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Petroicidae / Drymodes
Taxonomy Code: sosrob1
Type Locality: belts of the Murray in South Australia.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1841
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DRYMODES
(Petroicidae; Ϯ Southern Scrub-robin D. brunneopygia) Gr. δρυμωδης drumōdēs woody < δρυμος drumos copse, wood; ειδος eidos nature, state < ειδω eidō to perceive (cf. δρυμονιος drumonios haunting the woods); "An entirely new form, belonging to the family Saxicolinæ, and nearly allied to Petroïca, I propose to make the type of a new genus Drymodes, signifying a lover of woodland places:— Genus DRYMODES. Characteres generici.—Rostrum rectum, ad latera apicem versus paulo compressum, fere longitudine capitis, apice leviter denticulato, basi vibrissis parce instructa. Alæ mediocres, rotundatæ, remigum primo brevissimo, quinto longissimo. Cauda mediocriter elongata, paulo rotundata. Tarsi longi, graciles, antice superficie integra. Digiti mediocres, externus horum quam internus paulo longior, posticus cum ungue quam digitus intermedius cum ungue brevior. DRYMODES BRUNNEOPYGIA. ... Hab. Belts of the Murray in South Australia. This bird, although of a large size and so sombre in colouring, is nearly allied to Petroïca.” (Gould 1841); "Drymodes Gould, 1840, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 170. Type, by monotypy, Drymodes brunneopygia Gould." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 28).
Var. Drymaoedus, Drymos.
Synon. Drymodina, Drymoedus, Hylodes.
brunneopygia / brunneopygius
Mod. L. brunneus brown < Med. L. brunius brown; Gr. -πυγιος -pugios -rumped < πυγη pugē rump.
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)