Rufous Mourner
Rufous Mourner
Here the details of the Rufous Mourner named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Lipaugus holerythrus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(28)2 p.300
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Rhytipterna
Taxonomy Code: rufmou1
Type Locality: Choctum, Verapaz, Guatemala.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1860
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
RHYTIPTERNA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Greyish Mourner R. simplex) Gr. ῥυτις rhutis, ῥυτιδος rhutidos wrinkle; πτερνα pterna heel; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXV, labelled Muscicapinae: Tyranninae, shows the corrugations on the upper hinder part of the tarsus later commented on by Sharpe 1888; "Rhytipterna Reichenbach, 1850, Avium Syst. Nat., pl. 65. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 49), Tyrannus calcaratus Swainson = Muscicapa simplex Lichtenstein." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 191).
holerythra
Gr. ὁλος holos complete, entire; ερυθρος eruthros red.
SUBSPECIES
Rufous Mourner (holerythra)
SCI Name: Rhytipterna holerythra holerythra
holerythra
Gr. ὁλος holos complete, entire; ερυθρος eruthros red.
Rufous Mourner (rosenbergi)
SCI Name: Rhytipterna holerythra rosenbergi
rosenbergi / rosenbergii
● William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868-1957) British natural history dealer, collector in tropical America (Amazilia, syn. Erythrothlypis salmoni, Nyctiphrynus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Rhytipterna holerythra, subsp. Schiffornis veraepacis, syn. Sipia nigricauda, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Carl Benjamin Hermann Freiherr von Rosenberg (1817-1888) German naturalist, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (Gymnocrex, syn. Mino anais orientalis, Myzomela, Pitta, syn. Rhipidura threnothorax, Scolopax, Trichoglossus, Tyto).
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)