Xanthomixis Tenebrosa Bird

Xanthomixis Tenebrosa Bird

Xanthomixis Tenebrosa Bird

English Name:  Dusky Tetraka
Latin Name:  Xanthomixis tenebrosa
Protonym:  Bernieria tenebrosa Orn.Monatsb. 33 p.150
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Bernieridae / Xanthomixis
Taxonomy Code:  dustet1
Type Locality:  Sianaka Forest, eastern Madagascar.
Author:  Stresemann
Publish Year:  1925
IUCN Status:  Data Deficient

DEFINITIONS

XANTHOMIXIS
(Bernieridae; Ϯ Spectacled Tetraka X. zosterops) Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; ομμα omma, ομματος ommatos  eye; genus Neomixis Sharpe, 1881, jery (cf. genus Ixos Temminck, 1825, bulbul); "A better arrangement of the genus Bernieria and its allies appears to me to be somewhat as follows  ...   b. Tarso quam culmen longiore.   ...  d'. Vibrissis maximis, usque ad apicem rostri productis; tarsis integris. . . . . Xanthomixis.  ...  4. Xanthomixis zosterops (Sharpe)" (Sharpe 1881) (see Neomixis).
Var. Xanthomixus, Xanthomiscus.

tenebrosa / tenebrosus
L. tenebrosus  dark, gloomy  < tenebrae  darkness.
● ex “Petit Coucou noir de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 505 (Chelidoptera).