Thamnophilus Atrinucha Bird

English Name:  Black-crowned Antshrike
Latin Name:  Thamnophilus atrinucha
Protonym:  Thamnophilus atrinucha Biol.Centr.-Am. 2 p.200
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Thamnophilus
Taxonomy Code:  wesant1
Type Locality:  Central America; Panama fixed as typelocality by Hellmayr, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 1158.
Author:  Salvin & Godman
Publish Year:  1892
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

THAMNOPHILUS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Barred Antshrike T. doliatus) Gr. θαμνος thamnos  bush; φιλος philos  lover; "BATARA (DE AZARA), Thamnophilus.  Lanius, Turdus, Lin. Gm. Lath.  Bec droit à la base, robuste, convexe en dessus, comprimé latéralement; mandibule supérieure échancrée, ou dentée, et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure entaillée, aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Bouche ciliée. Ailes courtes arrondies.  Esp. Pie-Grièche rayée. — Fourmillier huppé, Buff.   ...   Tamnophilus [ταμνος, frutex, φιλεω, gaudeo]." (Vieillot 1816); "Thamnophilus Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 40. Type, by subsequent designation, Lanius doliatus Linné (Swainson, Zool. Journ., 1, 1824, p. 301)." (Peters 1951, VII, 162).
Var. Thamnoplius, Tamnophilus.   
Synon. Abalius, Erionotus, Rhopochares.

thamnophilus
Gr. θαμνος thamnos  bush; φιλος philos  loving  < φιλεω phileō  to love  < φιλος philos  lover.

atrinucha
L. ater  black; Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.

SUBSPECIES

Black-crowned Antshrike (atrinucha)
Latin Name: Thamnophilus atrinucha atrinucha
atrinucha
L. ater  black; Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.

Black-crowned Antshrike (gorgonae)
Latin Name: Thamnophilus atrinucha gorgonae
gorgonae
Gorgona I., off Pacific coast of Colombia.