Hydrornis Schwaneri Bird

Hydrornis Schwaneri Bird

Hydrornis Schwaneri Bird

English Name:  Bornean Banded-Pitta
Latin Name:  Hydrornis schwaneri
Protonym:  Pitta schwaneri Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.256
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pittidae / Hydrornis
Taxonomy Code:  banpit4
Type Locality:  Borneo.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

HYDRORNIS
(Pittidae; Ϯ Blue-naped Pitta H. nipalensis) Gr. ὑδρο- hudro-  water-   < ὑδωρ hudōr, ὑδατος hudatos  water; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird (see Paludicola); "Pitta nuchalis, Nobis, is identical with Hydrornis (olim Paludicola) Nipalensis, Hodgson, J.A.S. VI, 103: but it is barely separable from the great group of Pitta" (Blyth 1843); "Hydrornis Blyth, 1843, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 12, p. 960. New name for Paludicola Hodgson, 1837. Type, by monotypy, Paludicola Nipalensis Hodgson." (Mayr in Peters, 1979, VIII, pp. 310-311).   
Synon. Anthocincla, Eucichla, Gigantipitta, Heleornis, Insignipitta, Iridipitta, Leucopitta, Merulanthus, Ornatipitta, Paludicola.

schwaneri
Dr Carl Anton Ludwig Maria Schwaner (1817-1851) German mineralogist, zoologist, collector, explorer in Java and Borneo 1843-1851 (subsp. Abroscopus superciliaris, Hydrornis, syn. Lanius cristatus lucionensis, syn. Malacocincla abbotti concreta).