Xanthomixis Apperti Bird

Appert\'s Tetraka / Xanthomixis apperti

Xanthomixis Apperti Bird

English Name:  Appert's Tetraka
Latin Name:  Xanthomixis apperti
Protonym:  Phyllastrephus apperti Ibis 114 p.89
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Bernieridae / Xanthomixis
Taxonomy Code:  apptet1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Colston
Publish Year:  1972
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

XANTHOMIXIS
(Bernieridae; Ϯ Spectacled Tetraka X. zosterops) Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ομμα omma, ομματος ommatos  eye; genus Neomixis Sharpe, 1881, jery (cf. genus Ixos Temminck, 1825, bulbul); "A better arrangement of the genus Bernieria and its allies appears to me to be somewhat as follows  ...   b. Tarso quam culmen longiore.   ...  d'. Vibrissis maximis, usque ad apicem rostri productis; tarsis integris. . . . . Xanthomixis.  ...  4. Xanthomixis zosterops (Sharpe)" (Sharpe 1881) (see Neomixis).
Var. Xanthomixus, Xanthomiscus.

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Fr. Dr Otto Appert (1930-2012) Swiss missionary to Madagascar 1959-1966, 1973-1990, palaeontologist, naturalist (Xanthomixis).