Glaucidium Gnoma Bird

English Name:  Northern Pygmy-Owl
Latin Name:  Glaucidium gnoma
Protonym:  Glaucidium Gnoma Isis 25 col.275
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  nopowl
Type Locality:  Mexico.
Author:  Wagler
Publish Year:  1832
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.

gnoma
Mod. L. gnomus  gnome, dwarf, pygmy.

SUBSPECIES

Northern Pygmy-Owl (Mountain)
Latin Name: Glaucidium gnoma gnoma
gnoma
Mod. L. gnomus  gnome, dwarf, pygmy.

Northern Pygmy-Owl (Pacific)
Latin Name: Glaucidium gnoma [californicum Group]
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.

Northern Pygmy-Owl (Rocky Mts.)
Latin Name: Glaucidium gnoma pinicola
PINICOLA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Pine Grosbeak P. enucleator) L. pinus  pine tree; -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell; "Habitat in Sveciæ summæ, Canadæ Pinetis, victitans strobilis; disseminator Pini" (Linnaeus 1758); "EXPLICATION DE LA PLANCHE PREMIÈRE.   ...   Nº 13.  Bec du Pinicole rouge, Pinicola rubra, gros, conico-convexe, entier, crochu à la pointe de sa partie supérieure, et tronqué à l'extrémité de l'inférieure.  Le bec de cet oiseau ayant une forme très-dissemblable à celui de la Loxie ou du Gros-bec, genre dans lequel les méthodistes l'ont placé, j'en ai fait le type d'un nouveau, décrit dans le tome III." (Vieillot 1808); "Pinicola Vieillot, 1808, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amér. Sept., 1, (1807), p. iv, pl. 1, fig. 13. Type, by monotypy, Pinicola rubra Vieillot = Loxia enucleator Linaneus." (Paynter in Peters 1968, XIV, 283).
Var. Pinciola.
Synon. Corythus, Densirostra, Enucleator, Strobilophaga.

Northern Pygmy-Owl (Guatemalan)
Latin Name: Glaucidium gnoma cobanense
cobanense / cobanensis
Cobán, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala.

Northern Pygmy-Owl (Cape)
Latin Name: Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii
hoskinsii
Francis Hoskins (1841-1891) English mine owner in Mexico, Director of El Progreso Mine, El Triunfo, and Chairman of Compañía Unida de Minas de la Baja California (Glaucidium).