Cholo Alethe / Chamaetylas choloensis
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Cholo Alethe
SCI Name:
Protonym: Alethe choloensis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 47 p.86
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Chamaetylas
Taxonomy Code: choale1
Type Locality: Cholo Mountain, Nyasaland.
Author: Sclater, WL
Publish Year: 1927
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
CHAMAETYLAS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Brown-chested Alethe C. poliocephala compsonota) Gr. χαμαι khamai on the ground; τυλας tulas, τυλαδος tulados thrush; "A plump, upright, long-legged bird of the forest floor and low undergrowth" (Keith et al. (eds.) 1992); "Die Annahme einer ächten Geocichla in Africa scheint uns doch kaum zulässig, obgleich Cassin dieselbe mit Geocichla interpres Bp. (Turdus interpres Temm. Pl. col. 458) von den Sunda-Inseln vergleicht, wir möchlen desshalb für diese schöne Art lieber den Namen Chamaetylas compsonota (von χαμαι = humi und τυλας = turdus) vorschlagen." (Heine 1860); "Chamaetylas Heine, 1859, Journ. f. Orn., 7, p. 425. Type, by monotypy, Geocichla compsonota Cassin" (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 61).
Synon. Pseudalethe.
choloensis
Cholo Mt., Nyasaland / Thyolo Mt., Malawi.
SUBSPECIES
Cholo Alethe (choloensis)
SCI Name: Chamaetylas choloensis choloensis
choloensis
Cholo Mt., Nyasaland / Thyolo Mt., Malawi.
Cholo Alethe (namuli)
SCI Name: Chamaetylas choloensis namuli
namuli
Namuli Mts., Mozambique.
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)
