Glaucidium Nana Bird

Glaucidium Nana Bird

Glaucidium Nana Bird

English Name:  Austral Pygmy-Owl
Latin Name:  Glaucidium nana
Protonym:  Strix nana Zool.J. 3 p.427
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  aupowl1
Type Locality:  Port Famine Straits of Magellan.
Author:  King, PP
Publish Year:  1827
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.

nana
L. nanus  dwarf  < Gr. νανος nanos  dwarf.
● ex “Petit Marteau” of Sganzin 1840 (Lepidopygia).