Glaucidium Castanopterum Bird

Glaucidium Castanopterum Bird

Glaucidium Castanopterum Bird

English Name:  Javan Owlet
Latin Name:  Glaucidium castanopterum
Protonym:  Strix castanoptera Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.140
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  javowl1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Horsfield
Publish Year:  1821
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

castanoptera / castanopterum / castanopterus
Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Chesnut Coucal” of Latham 1822 (syn. Centropus sinensis).