White-backed Black-Tit

White-backed Black-Tit / Melaniparus leuconotus

White-backed Black-Tit

Here the details of the White-backed Black-Tit named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melaniparus leuconotus
Protonym:  Parus leuconotus Rev.Zool. 6 p.162
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae /
Taxonomy Code:  whbblt1
Type Locality:  Abyssinia.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MELANIPARUS
(Paridae; Ϯ Southern Black Tit M. niger) Gr. μελας  melas, μελανος  melanos  black; genus Parus Linnaeus, 1758, tit; "489. Melaniparus, Bp. (Parus, p. Gr.)  3. P. niger, Vieill. (luctuosus, Licht.) Lev. Afr. t. 137. 1. ex Africa mer." (Bonaparte 1850).
Var. Melanoparus.
Synon. Aegithospiza, Pentheres.

leuconotos / leuconotus
Gr. λευκος leukos  white; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.