Glaucidium Sanchezi Bird

Glaucidium Sanchezi Bird

Glaucidium Sanchezi Bird

English Name:  Tamaulipas Pygmy-Owl
Latin Name:  Glaucidium sanchezi
Protonym:  Glaucidium sanchezi Occ.Pap.Mus.Zool.LSU no.22 p.1-4
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  tapowl1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Lowery & Newman
Publish Year:  1949
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

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Carlos Sánchez Mejorada, Jr. (fl. 1948) Mexican sponsor, naturalist (Glaucidium).