Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant / Muscisaxicola maclovianus
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Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sylvia macloviana Voy.Coq. 1 livr.12 p.540
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Muscisaxicola
Taxonomy Code: dafgrt1
Type Locality: 'lies Malouines, dans les environs de la bale de I''Huile, du port Duperrey et les vallees qui avoisinent I''Aiguade.
Author: Garnot
Publish Year: 1826
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MUSCISAXICOLA
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Rufous-naped Ground Tyrant M. rufivertex) Portmanteau of genera Muscicapa Brisson 1760, flycatcher, and Saxicola auct. (= Oenanthe Vieillot 1816), wheatear; "G. MUSCISAXICOLA. Nob. Pedibus valde elongatis, gracilibus, unguibus anticis brevibus, postice longiore parum curvato, alis prælongis, acuminatis; cauda mediocris apice recto; rostro tenui, valde compresso, elongato, non basi depresso, quibus omnibus characteribus habituque toto Saxicolis hujus generis species proxime accedunt. ... 1. M. rufivertex, Nob. ... 2. M. mentalis, Nob. ... 3. M. maculirostris, Nob. ... 4. M. striaticeps, Nob." (d'Orbigny & de La Fresnaye 1837); "Muscisaxicola d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Mag. Zool. [Paris], 7, cl. 2, p. 65. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 24), Muscisaxicola rufivertex d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 168).
Synon. Ptyonura.
macloviana / maclovianus
Îles Malouines (named after fishermen and explorers from St. Malo, France) (Spanish Islas Malvinas) (= Falkland Is.).
SUBSPECIES
Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant (mentalis)
SCI Name: Muscisaxicola maclovianus mentalis
mentale / mentalis
Mod. L. mentalis pertaining to the chin < French mental of the chin < L. mentum chin (cf. Late L. mentalis of the mind < L. mens, mentis mind).
● ex “Langrayen de Viti” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1843 (Artamus).
Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant (maclovianus)
SCI Name: Muscisaxicola maclovianus maclovianus
macloviana / maclovianus
Îles Malouines (named after fishermen and explorers from St. Malo, France) (Spanish Islas Malvinas) (= Falkland Is.).
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)
