Blackish Nightjar / Nyctipolus nigrescens
WBN 
Blackish Nightjar
SCI Name:
Protonym: Caprimulgus nigrescens ReisenBrit.-Guiana[Schomburgk] 3 p.710
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Nyctipolus
Taxonomy Code: blanig1
Type Locality: Lower Essequibo River, British Guiana.
Author: Cabanis
Publish Year: 1849
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NYCTIPOLUS
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ Blackish Nightjar N. nigrescens) Gr. νυκτιπολος nuktipolos roaming by night < νυξ nux, νυκτος nuktos night; πολεω poleō to haunt; "Nyctipolus gen. nov. Type, Caprimulgus nigrescens Cabanis. Differing from Antrostomus Gould in having the whole tarsus (except plantar surface) feathered; nostrils narrow, longitudinal, opening laterally beneath a tumid operculum; and primaries either uniform black or with a white spot on inner web of seventh and eighth, or seventh, eighth, and ninth. (Nυκτιπολος, roaming by night.) Species: (1) Nyctipolus nigrescens (Cabanis); (2) Nyctipolus whitelyi (Salvin)." (Ridgway 1912).
nigrescens
L. nigrescens, nigrescentis blackish < nigrescere to become black < niger black.
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)
