Apolinar's Wren

SCI Name:  Cistothorus apolinari
Protonym:  Cistothorus apolinari Bull.Am.Mus.Nat.Hist. 33 p.635
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Troglodytidae / Cistothorus
Taxonomy Code:  apowre1
Type Locality:  Suba Marshes [= Tibabuyes] (alt. 8,600 ft.), 4 mi. [north] from Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia.
Author:  Chapman
Publish Year:  1914
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

CISTOTHORUS
(Troglodytidae; Ϯ Sedge Wren C. stellaris) Gr. κιστος kistos  shrub, rock-rose; θοος thoos  nimble, quick  < θεω theō  to hasten (cf. θουρος thouros  rushing, impetuous  < θρωσκω thrōskō  to leap upon); "Gen. TROGLODYTES Vieill. 1807. ***) Zaunkönig.   ...   ***)Von Troglodytes werden wegen des zwar kurzen aber verhältnissmässig stärkern, an der Spitze stärker gebogenen Schnabels, sowie sonstiger Unterschiede halber, einige kleine gewissermassen an Cisticola erinnernde Arten als eigne Gruppe abzusondern sein:  Gen. Cistothorus nov. gen. Cistschlüpfer.  1. C. stellaris. — Troglodytes stellaris Licht Naum. Vög. Deutschl. Vol. III (1823) pag. 724; viel später von den amerikanischen Ornithologen als neue Art (T. brevirostris Nutt. Audub.) beschrieben.   2. C. interscapularis. — Troglodytes interscapularis Licht. in Erman's Reise; mit einem schwarz und weiss gestreiften Rückenfleck wie der von Certhia palustris Wils. — Vaterland: Brasilien." (Cabanis 1853); "Cistothorus Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Hein., 1 (1850), p. 77 (footnote). Type, by subsequent designation, Troglodytes stellaris Naumann (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 31)." (Paynter in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 391).
Var. Cristoforus.
Synon. Telmatodytes.

apolinari
Br. Apolinar María (born Nicolás Seiler) (1867-1949) French missionary to Colombia 1904-1949, Rector of the La Salle Institute, zoologist (Cistothorus).

SUBSPECIES

Apolinar's Wren (apolinari)
SCI Name: Cistothorus apolinari apolinari
apolinari
Br. Apolinar María (born Nicolás Seiler) (1867-1949) French missionary to Colombia 1904-1949, Rector of the La Salle Institute, zoologist (Cistothorus).

Apolinar's Wren (hernandezi)
SCI Name: Cistothorus apolinari hernandezi
hernandezi / hernandezii
● Dr Jorge Ignacio Hernández-Camacho (1935-2002) Colombian zoologist, conservationist (subsp. Cistothorus apolinari, subsp. Leptotila verreauxi).
● Dr Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514-1587) Spanish court physician, commissioner to New Spain (= Mexico) 1570-1577, commanded to report on the resources of the new colony (his report remained a state secret and was never published; various editions were issued in the 17th and 18th centuries) (syn. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (ex “Atototl Alcatraz” of Hernandez 1651)).
● Gaspar Hernández (fl. 1870) Cuban landowner, naturalist, collector (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.) (syn. Sula sula).