Albertine Owlet / Glaucidium albertinum
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Albertine Owlet
SCI Name:
Protonym: Glaucidium albertinum Rev.Zool.Afr. 97 p.886-895
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code: albowl1
Type Locality:
Author: Prigogine
Publish Year: 1983
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
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.
albertina / albertinae / albertinum
● Albertine Rift Valley. The ecologically important Albertine Rift runs from Lake Albert southwards to Lake Tanganyika, being named after Lake Albert, itself named after Albert Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (Glaucidium).
● Albertine Catharina Petronella Pfeiffer (1829-1894) stepdaughter of Dutch zoologist Prof. Theodorus van Lidth de Jeude, and second wife of German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel (Streptocitta).
● Albertina Bertha Josepha Wilhelmina Carolina Theodora Emma Gräfin Marschall auf Burgholzhausen und Tromsdorf (1846-1910) daughter of Austrian zoologist August Friedrich Graf Marschall auf Burgholzhausen und Tromsdorf (subsp. Tangara gyrola).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
