Buteo Nitidus Bird
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Buteo Nitidus Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Falco nitidus IndexOrn. 1 p.41
Taxonomy: Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Buteo
Taxonomy Code: gryhaw3
Type Locality: Cayenne.
Author: Latham
Publish Year: 1790
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BUTEO
(Accipitridae; Ϯ Common Buzzard B. buteo) Specific name Falco buteo Linnaeus, 1758. "BUSE, Buteo. Bec, tête et base du bec des Éperviers; ailes des Aigles; tarse gros et court." (de Lacépède 1799); "Buteo Lacépède, Tabl. Ois., 1799, p. 4. Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo Linné." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 228).
Var. Bateo, Biteo.
Synon. Amplibuteo, Archibuteo, Asturina, Asturisca, Brewsteria, Butaetes, Butaquila, Buteaetos, Buteola, Buthierax, Cerchne, Circobuteo, Coryornis, Craxirex, Dromolestes, Hemiaetus, Limnaetus, Limnosalus, Onychotes, Poecilopternis, Praedo, Pterolestes, Triorchis.
buteo
L. buteo, buteonis buzzard; "41. FALCO. ... Buteo. 14. F. cera pedibusque luteis, corpore fusco, abdomine pallido maculis fuscis. Buteo vulgaris. Gesn. av. 46. Will. ornith. 38. t. 6. Raj. av. 16. Buteo. Alb. av. I. p. 1. t. 1. Habitat in Europa, Cuniculis & Bufonibus infestus." (Linnaeus 1758) (Buteo).
nitidum / nitidus
L. nitidus brilliant, glittering < nitere to shine (cf. Med. L. nitidus fresh).
SUBSPECIES
Gray-lined Hawk (blakei)
Latin Name: Buteo nitidus blakei
blakei
● Emmet Reid Blake (1908-1997) US ornithologist, collector (subsp. Buteo nitidus, subsp. Catharus dryas, Grallaria).
● Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1840-1918) British diplomat, Gov. of the Bahamas 1884-1887, Newfoundland 1887-1889, Jamaica 1889-1898, Hong Kong 1898-1903, Ceylon 1903-1907 (subsp. Melanerpes superciliaris).
Gray-lined Hawk (nitidus)
Latin Name: Buteo nitidus nitidus
nitidum / nitidus
L. nitidus brilliant, glittering < nitere to shine (cf. Med. L. nitidus fresh).
Gray-lined Hawk (pallidus)
Latin Name: Buteo nitidus pallidus
pallidum / pallidus
L. pallidus pallid, pale, wan, sallow < pallere to be pale.
● ex “Pale Thrush” of Latham 1783 (Turdus).
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)
