Glaucidium Costaricanum Bird

English Name:  Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl
Latin Name:  Glaucidium costaricanum
Protonym:  Glaucidium jardinii costaricanum Auk 54 p.304
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  crpowl
Type Locality:  Costa Rica.
Author:  Kelso, L
Publish Year:  1937
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.

costaricanum / costaricensis
Costa Rica (Spanish costa rica rich coast, from its supposed gold resources).