Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium nubicola
WBN 
Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl
SCI Name:
Protonym: Glaucidium nubicola Auk 116 p.305-315,frontcover.
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code: clopyo1
Type Locality:
Author: Robbins & Stiles
Publish Year: 1999
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.
nubicola / nubicolus
Mod. L. nubicola cloud-dweller < L. nubes, nubis cloud; -cola dweller < colere to inhabit.
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)
