Glaucidium Nubicola Bird

Glaucidium Nubicola Bird

Glaucidium Nubicola Bird

English Name:  Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl
Latin Name:  Glaucidium nubicola
Protonym:  Glaucidium nubicola Auk 116 p.305-315,frontcover.
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  clopyo1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Robbins & Stiles
Publish Year:  1999
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

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.

nubicola / nubicolus
Mod. L. nubicola  cloud-dweller  < L. nubes, nubis  cloud; -cola  dweller  < colere  to inhabit.