Glaucidium Mooreorum Bird
Glaucidium Mooreorum Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Ararajuba 10 p.123,124, frontispiece[p.121]
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code: perpyo1
Type Locality:
Author: Silva, Coelho & Gonzaga
Publish Year: 2003
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
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.
mooreorum
Dr Gordon Earle Moore (b. 1929) US entrepreneur, philanthropist, co-founder and chairman of Intel Corporation, and his wife Betty Irene Moore née Whitaker (Glaucidium).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)