Chestnut-headed Flufftail

SCI Name:  Sarothrura lugens
Protonym:  Crex lugeus J.Orn. 32 p.176,244
Taxonomy:  Gruiformes / Sarothruridae / Sarothrura
Taxonomy Code:  chhflu1
Type Locality:  Ugalla Country, interior of Tanganyika Territory.
Author:  Böhm
Publish Year:  1884
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SAROTHRURA
(Sarothruridae; Ϯ Striped Flufftail S. affinis) Gr. σαρωτρον sarōtron  broom  < σαιρω sairō  to sweep; ουρα oura  tail; "Genus Sarothrura Heine [Corethrura Rchb. 1853 nec Gray 1846]." (Heine 1890); "Sarothrura Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, p. 319. New name for Corethrura Reichenbach, 1853 (not Corethrura Gray, 1846.) Type, by original designation, Gallinula jardinei A. Smith = Alecthelia lineata Swainson [= Crex affinis A. Smith]." (Peters 1934, II, 194).
Var. Saurothrura.
Synon. Alecthelia, Corethrura, Daseioura, Lemurolimnas.

lugens
L. lugens, lugentis  mourning  < lugere  to mourn.

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-headed Flufftail (lugens)
SCI Name: Sarothrura lugens lugens
lugens
L. lugens, lugentis  mourning  < lugere  to mourn.

Chestnut-headed Flufftail (lynesi)
SCI Name: Sarothrura lugens lynesi
lynesi
Rear-Adm. Hubert Lynes (1874-1942) Royal Navy, on China Station 1910-1912, ornithologist, collector in tropical Africa (subsp. Anthus cinnamomeus, Apalis, ‡subsp. Ardeotis arabs, subsp. Batis orientalis, subsp. Cisticola brunnescens, syn. Dendrocopos major mauritanus, subsp. Galerida cristata, syn. Hirundo atrocaerulea, subsp. Lybius leucocephalus, subsp. Mirafra rufa, syn. Myrmecocichla tholloni, syn. Parus major excelsus, Sarothrura).