Nesillas Aldabrana Bird

Nesillas Aldabrana Bird

Nesillas Aldabrana Bird

English Name:  Aldabra Brush-Warbler
Latin Name:  Nesillas aldabrana
Protonym:  Nesillas aldabranus Bull.Br.Orn.Club 88 p.102
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acrocephalidae / Nesillas
Taxonomy Code:  albwar1
Type Locality:  400 meters from western extremity of Middle Island, north coast of Aldabra Atoll.
Author:  Benson & Penny
Publish Year:  1968
IUCN Status:  Extinct

DEFINITIONS

NESILLAS
(Acrocephalidae; Ϯ Madagascar Brush-warbler N. typica) Gr. νησος nēsos  island (= Madagascar); ιλλας illas, ιλλαδος illados  thrush; "ELLISIA Hartlaub.  The genus Ellisia Hartlaub [1860] must give way to Ellisia Forbes and Goodsir [1840], for a group of Polypi.  As Thamnornis Milne-Edwards, type chloropetoides, appears to be sufficiently distinct for generic separation, a new name is necessary for the species of Ellisia proper; and Nesillas, from νησος, insula, and ιλλας, turdus, is proposed, the type being Ellisia typica Hartlaub." (Oberholser 1899).
Synon. Ellisia.

aldabrana
Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean  < Arabic name al-Hadra for the islands.