Gymnopithys Rufigula Bird

English Name:  Rufous-throated Antbird
Latin Name:  Gymnopithys rufigula
Protonym:  Turdus rufigula TablePlanchesEnlum. p.39
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae / Gymnopithys
Taxonomy Code:  rutant4
Type Locality:  Cayenne, ex Daubenton, pi. 644, fig. 2.
Author:  Boddaert
Publish Year:  1783
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GYMNOPITHYS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ Rufous-throated Antbird G. rufigula) Gr. γυμνος gumnos  bare, naked; genus Pithys Vieillot, 1818, antbird; "Bare orbital ring imparts startled, 'wide-eyed' look" (Hilty 2003); "Myiothereæ.   ...   1264. Gymnopithys, Schiff." (Bonaparte 1854); "TYRANNINÆ   ...   71. Pithys albifrons, Vieill. ex Gm.   72. Gymnopithys pectoralis, Schiff, ex Lath." (Bonaparte 1857); "Gymnopithys Bonaparte,¹ Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, 2, 1857, p. 35. Type, by monotypy Gymnopithys pectoralis "Schiff, ex Lath." = Turdus pectoralis Latham = Turdus rufigula Boddaert.   ...   ¹ This name is a nomen nudum in Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (4), 1, 1854, p. 132." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 246). 
Synon. Anoplops.

rufigula
L. rufus red; gula throat.
● ex “Péristère à gorge rousse” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1845 (Gallicolumba).
● ex “Petit Merle brun à gorge rousse de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 644, fig. 2 (Gymnopithys).

SUBSPECIES

Rufous-throated Antbird (pallidus)
Latin Name: Gymnopithys rufigula pallidus
pallidum / pallidus
L. pallidus  pallid, pale, wan, sallow  < pallere  to be pale.
● ex “Pale Thrush” of Latham 1783 (Turdus).

Rufous-throated Antbird (pallidigula)
Latin Name: Gymnopithys rufigula pallidigula
pallidigula
L. pallidus  pale  < pallere  to be pale; gula  throat.

Rufous-throated Antbird (rufigula)
Latin Name: Gymnopithys rufigula rufigula
rufigula
L. rufus red; gula throat.
● ex “Péristère à gorge rousse” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1845 (Gallicolumba).
● ex “Petit Merle brun à gorge rousse de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 644, fig. 2 (Gymnopithys).