Glaucidium Castaneum Bird

English Name:  Chestnut Owlet
Latin Name:  Glaucidium castaneum
Protonym:  Glaucidium castaneum Orn.Monatsb. 1 p.62
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  cheowl1
Type Locality:  Andundi, Belgian Congo.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1893
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

GLAUCIDIUM
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern Pygmy Owl G. passerinum) Gr. γλαυκιδιον glaukidion  little owl, owlet  < dim. γλαυξ glaux, γλαυκος glaukos  owl; "IV. Fam. Strigidae   ...  Glaucidium: St. nana Tem; passerina Lin. u. a. m." (Boie 1826); "Glaucidium Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 970. Type, by subsequent designation, Strix passerina Linné (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 6)." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 127).
Var. Gaucidium.
Synon. Microglaux, Microptynx, Noctua, Nyctipetes, Phalaenopsis, Smithiglaux, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx.

castaneum / castaneus
L. castaneus  chestnut-coloured  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut.
● ex “Carouge de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 343 (syn. Icterus spurius).

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut Owlet (Etchecopar's)
Latin Name: Glaucidium castaneum etchecopari
etchecopari
Robert Daniel Etchécopar (1905-1990) French ornithologist, Director of CRMMO 1954-1976, founding President of EURING 1963 (Glaucidium).

Chestnut Owlet (Chestnut)
Latin Name: Glaucidium castaneum castaneum
castaneum / castaneus
L. castaneus  chestnut-coloured  < castanea  chestnut  < Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut.
● ex “Carouge de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 343 (syn. Icterus spurius).