Xenocopsychus Ansorgei Bird
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Xenocopsychus Ansorgei Bird
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Protonym: Xenocopsychus ansorgei Bull.Br.Orn.Club 19 p.82
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Xenocopsychus
Taxonomy Code: anccha1
Type Locality: Lobango, Mossamedes, Angola.
Author: Hartert, E
Publish Year: 1907
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
XENOCOPSYCHUS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Angola Cave Chat X. ansorgei) Gr. ξενος xenos stranger; genus Copsychus Wagler, 1827, magpie robin; "XENOCOPSYCHUS, gen. n. Closely allied to Copsychus, but the bill is slightly more depressed, the culmen less arched, the operculum covering the nostrils bare, the frontal feathers directed backwards, while in Copsychus the nasal operculum is completely or nearly hidden by bristly feathers, which are directed forwards. ... The sexes are alike in colour, as in Copsychus seychellarum, while in the Indian and Malayan forms the sexes differ. XENOCOPSYCHUS ANSORGEI, sp. n." (Hartert 1907); "Xenocopsychus Hartert, 1907, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 19, p. 81. Type, by monotypy, Xenocopsychus ansorgei Hartert." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 50).
ansorgeanus / ansorgei / ansorgii
Prof. Dr William John Ansorge (1850-1913) British physician in Mauritius, Uganda and Nigeria, zoologist, collector, explorer in tropical Africa (subsp. Acrocephalus rufescens, subsp. Anthoscopus caroli, subsp. Anthus leucophrys, syn. Apalis rufogularis angolensis, syn. Apus caffer, subsp. Calendulauda sabota, syn. Chlorophoneus bocagei, syn. Cinnyris reichenowi, subsp. Cisticola rufilatus, subsp. Criniger barbatus, Dyaphorophyia, syn. Eremomela atricollis, syn. Erythropygia leucophrys munda, subsp. Euplectes gierowii, syn. Euplectes progne delacouri, Eurillas, subsp. Indicator willcocksi, subsp. Lagonosticta rhodopareia, syn. Melaenornis infuscatus benguellensis, syn. Myioparus griseigularis, Nesocharis, syn. Numida meleagris reichenowi, subsp. Ortygospiza atricollis, subsp. Parisoma subcaeruleum, subsp. Parmoptila woodhousei, subsp. Plocepasser mahali, subsp. Prinia flavicans, subsp. Pterocles bicinctus, syn. Sarothrura rufa, subsp. Sylvia abyssinica, syn. Sylvia subcoerulea iohannis, subsp. Sylvietta rufescens, subsp. Tchagra australis, subsp. Treron calvus, subsp. Tricholaema hirsuta, Xenocopsychus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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lowercase: species and subspecies
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‡: 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)
