Glaucidium Sjostedti Bird

Sjöstedt\'s Owlet / Glaucidium sjostedti

Glaucidium Sjostedti Bird

English Name:  Sjöstedt's Owlet
Latin Name:  Glaucidium sjostedti
Protonym:  Glaucidium sjöstedti Orn.Monatsb. 1 p.65
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  sjoowl1
Type Locality:  Cameroon Mountain.
Author:  Reichenow
Publish Year:  1893
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

sjostedti / sjöstedti
Original spellings of eponym sjoestedti.