Glaucidium Albertinum Bird

Glaucidium Albertinum Bird

Glaucidium Albertinum Bird

English Name:  Albertine Owlet
Latin Name:  Glaucidium albertinum
Protonym:  Glaucidium albertinum Rev.Zool.Afr. 97 p.886-895
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  albowl1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Prigogine
Publish Year:  1983
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

GLAUCIDIUM
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern Pygmy Owl G. passerinum) Gr. γλαυκιδιον glaukidion  little owl, owlet  < dim. γλαυξ glaux, γλαυκος glaukos  owl; "IV. Fam. Strigidae   ...  Glaucidium: St. nana Tem; passerina Lin. u. a. m." (Boie 1826); "Glaucidium Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 970. Type, by subsequent designation, Strix passerina Linné (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 6)." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 127).
Var. Gaucidium.
Synon. Microglaux, Microptynx, Noctua, Nyctipetes, Phalaenopsis, Smithiglaux, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx.

albertina / albertinae / albertinum
● Albertine Rift Valley. The ecologically important Albertine Rift runs from Lake Albert southwards to Lake Tanganyika, being named after Lake Albert, itself named after Albert Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (Glaucidium).
● Albertine Catharina Petronella Pfeiffer (1829-1894) stepdaughter of Dutch zoologist Prof. Theodorus van Lidth de Jeude, and second wife of German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel (Streptocitta).
● Albertina Bertha Josepha Wilhelmina Carolina Theodora Emma Gräfin Marschall auf Burgholzhausen und Tromsdorf (1846-1910) daughter of Austrian zoologist August Friedrich Graf Marschall auf Burgholzhausen und Tromsdorf (subsp. Tangara gyrola).