Stipiturus Ruficeps Bird
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Stipiturus Ruficeps Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Stipiturus ruficeps Vict.Nat. 15 p.116
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Maluridae / Stipiturus
Taxonomy Code: rucemu1
Type Locality: North West Cape, midwestern Australia.
Author: Campbell, AJ
Publish Year: 1899
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
STIPITURUS
(Maluridae; Ϯ Southern Emu-wren S. malachurus) L. stipes, stipitis stem, branch; Gr. ουρα oura tail; "CLXII.e Genre. QUEUE GAZÉE; Stipiturus: Drymoica; Pars, Sw. Bec court, mince, grêle; quelques poils à la base; tarses minces, grêles; ailes courtes, concaves. Queue composée de brins minces, filiformes, à barbes ciliées, au nombre de six. QUEUE GAZÉE; Muscicapa malachura, Lath.; Malurus malachurus, Vig. et Horsf.; Levaill., pl. 130, fig. 1. Du Port-Jackson. Fig. 2, femelle. Le Wawgul-Jelly des naturels de Sidney." (Lesson 1831); "Stipiturus Lesson, 1831, Traité Ornith., livr. 6, p. 414. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa malachura Shaw." (Mayr in Peters 1986, XI, 402).
Synon. Malacurus.
ruficeps
L. rufus red, ruddy; -ceps -headed < caput, capitis head.
● ex “Tordo del corona de canela” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 72 (syn. Chrysomus ruficapillus).
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)
