Nothocercus Nigrocapillus Bird
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Nothocercus Nigrocapillus Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Tinamus nigrocapillus ListBirdsBrit.Mus. pt5 p.98
Taxonomy: Tinamiformes / Tinamidae / Nothocercus
Taxonomy Code: hootin1
Type Locality: Chile; error, central Bolivia,
Author: Gray, GR
Publish Year: 1867
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NOTHOCERCUS
(Tinamidae; Ϯ Tawny-breasted Tinamou N. julius) Gr. νοθος nothos spurious; κερκος kerkos tail; "Subfamilia 23. Tinaminæ. Af. CRYPTUREÆ. ... 98. Nothocercus, Bp. 330. bourcieri, Bp. 331. julius, Bp. 332. delattrii, Bp. (cinnamomeus? Less.) 333. sallæi, Bp. 334. noctivagus, Wied. (zabele, Spix.) 335. variegatus, Gm. 336. atricapillus, Tschudi" (Bonaparte 1856); "Nothocercus Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 881. Type, by subsequent designation, Tinamus julius Bonaparte (Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 27, 1895, p. 509.)" (Peters 1931, I, 14).
Var. Nothocernus.
nigrocapillus
L. niger black; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
SUBSPECIES
Hooded Tinamou (cadwaladeri)
Latin Name: Nothocercus nigrocapillus cadwaladeri
cadwaladeri
Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader (1885-1959) US philanthropist, Director of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (syn. Dendrocopos major mandarinus, subsp. Laniisoma elegans, subsp. Nothocercus nigrocapillus, subsp. Thamnophilus doliatus).
Hooded Tinamou (nigrocapillus)
Latin Name: Nothocercus nigrocapillus nigrocapillus
nigrocapillus
L. niger black; -capillus -capped < capillus hair of the head.
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)
