Chamaeza Mollissima Bird

English Name:  Barred Antthrush
Latin Name:  Chamaeza mollissima
Protonym:  Chamaeza mollissima Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt23 no.290 p.89 pl.95
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Formicariidae / Chamaeza
Taxonomy Code:  barant2
Type Locality:  Santa Fe de Bogota.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1855
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHAMAEZA
(Formicariidae; Ϯ Short-tailed Ant-thrush C. campanisona) Gr. χαμαι khamai  on the ground; ζαω zaō  to live (cf. χαμαζη khamazē  on the ground); "Uncommon to locally fairly common on or near the ground in humid and montane forest and mature secondary woodland" (Ridgely & Tudor 1994); "*CHAMÆZA.   Rostrum subbreve, subforte, culmine leviter arcuato; naribus basalibus, oblongo-ovalibus, longitudinalibus, plumis parvulis obtectis.  Alæ brevissimæ, rotundatæ; remige 1^ma brevi, 2^da et 7^ma, 3^ta et 6^ta æqualibus, longissimis; pogoniis utrinque fere integris.  Pedes subgraciles; tarsis elongatis; acrotarsiis scutellatis, in scuta novem divisis; paratarsiis in scutula plurima divisis; digitis subelongatis, gracilibus, duobus extimis ad basin connexis, unguibus gracilibus, compressis; halluce subelongato, subforti, ungue subelongato, arcuato, maxime compresso.  Cauda brevis, rotundata,   Obs. Genus subfamilias Myiotherinam, Swains., et Merulinam eximie connectens.    MERULOIDES.  ...  Habitat in Brasilia." (Vigors 1825); "Chamaeza Vigors, Zool. Journ., 2, 1825, p. 395. Type, by monotypy, Chamaeza meruloides Vigors = Turdus brevicaudus Vieillot = Myiothera campanisona Lichtenstein." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 242).
Var. Chamoeza, Chamaezosa (Gr. ζωη zōē  manner of life), Chamaezusa, Chanmzu, Chemaeza, Chemoeza.

mollissima / mollissimus
L. mollissimus  very soft  < super. mollis  soft.
● "61. ANAS.  ...  mollissima.  12. A. rostro cylindrico, cera postice bifida rugosa. Fn. svec. 94.  Anas plumis mollissimis. Barth. act. I. p. 90. Worm. mus. 310. Will. orn. 277. Raj. av. 141.  Anas magna nigra & alba. Edw. av. 98. t. 98.  Habitat in Europa boreali, pelagica. It. gotl. 213. deplumatur in nido: plumis mollissimis, præstantissimis, pretiosissimis.  Mas albus, subtus posticeque niger. Femina grisea." (Linnaeus 1758) (Somateria).

SUBSPECIES

Barred Antthrush (mollissima)
Latin Name: Chamaeza mollissima mollissima
mollissima / mollissimus
L. mollissimus  very soft  < super. mollis  soft.
● "61. ANAS.  ...  mollissima.  12. A. rostro cylindrico, cera postice bifida rugosa. Fn. svec. 94.  Anas plumis mollissimis. Barth. act. I. p. 90. Worm. mus. 310. Will. orn. 277. Raj. av. 141.  Anas magna nigra & alba. Edw. av. 98. t. 98.  Habitat in Europa boreali, pelagica. It. gotl. 213. deplumatur in nido: plumis mollissimis, præstantissimis, pretiosissimis.  Mas albus, subtus posticeque niger. Femina grisea." (Linnaeus 1758) (Somateria).

Barred Antthrush (yungae)
Latin Name: Chamaeza mollissima yungae
yungae
Yungas, a region of tropical forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia (named after an indigenous people, the Yuncas, a tribe of the Aymaras).