Toxostoma Bendirei Bird
Toxostoma Bendirei Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Harporhynchus Bendirei Am.Nat. 7 p.330,note
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Mimidae / Toxostoma
Taxonomy Code: benthr
Type Locality: Tucson, Ariz.
Author: Coues
Publish Year: 1873
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
TOXOSTOMA
(Mimidae; Ϯ Curve-billed Thrasher T. curvirostre) Gr. τοξον toxon bow, arch; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos mouth; "Genus Toxostoma, Bogenschnabel. (Genus novum.) 54. Toxostoma Vetula (species nova). Notaeo toto e fuliginoso-cinereo, exclusa alae flexura albida et macula in apice rectricum quaternarum, externarum candida (versus rectrices interiores sensim minore); gastraeo toto albido, fusco-cinereo nubilo; rostro arcuato nigro. Adult. Chietotottotl Hernand. Thes. p. 31. cap. 80." (Wagler 1831); "Toxostoma Wagler, 1831, Isis von Oken, 24, p. 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 449).
Var. Toxastoma, Taxostoma.
Synon. Antimimus, Harpes, Harporhynchus, Methriopterus.
bendirei
Maj. Charles Emil Bendire (1836-1897) German/US soldier, field naturalist, oologist, collector (syn. Falco columbarius, subsp. Loxia curvirostra, subsp. Megascops kennicottii, syn. Melospiza melodia fallax, Toxostoma).
SUBSPECIES
Bendire's Thrasher (bendirei)
Latin Name: Toxostoma bendirei bendirei
bendirei
Maj. Charles Emil Bendire (1836-1897) German/US soldier, field naturalist, oologist, collector (syn. Falco columbarius, subsp. Loxia curvirostra, subsp. Megascops kennicottii, syn. Melospiza melodia fallax, Toxostoma).
Bendire's Thrasher (candidum)
Latin Name: Toxostoma bendirei candidum
candidum / candidus
L. candidus brilliant white, glittering white < candere to shine (cf. albus dead white, matt white).
● ex “White Eagle” of du Pratz 1774, and Pennant 1787, and “Louisiane White Eagle” of Latham 1781 (syn. Aquila chrysaetos).
Bendire's Thrasher (rubricatum)
Latin Name: Toxostoma bendirei rubricatum
rubricata / rubricatum / rubricatus
L. rubricatus red-ochred, ruddy < rubrica red-ochre < ruber, rubra red, ruddy.
● ex “Sénégali rouge” of Vieillot 1805 (Lagonosticta).
● ex “Ruddy Warbler” of Latham 1801 (syn. Origma solitaria).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: 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)