Fan-tailed Grassbird

SCI Name:  Schoenicola brevirostris
Protonym:  Bradypterus brevirostris Oefv.Vet.-Akad.Forh. 7 p.103
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Schoenicola
Taxonomy Code:  fatgra1
Type Locality:  'in Caffraria inferiori.'' Type from upper Umlaas River, Natal, fide Gyldenstolpe, 1927, Arkiv Zool., 19 A, no. 1, p. 46.
Author:  Sundevall
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SCHOENICOLA
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Broad-tailed Grassbird S. platyurus) L. schoenus  rush, reed  < Gr. σχοινος skhoinos  reed, rush; -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell; "Following the Sphenura should rank Mr. Jerdon's Timalia platyura, for which I have suggested to him the generic name Schœnicola; but I have not a specimen now by me wherefrom to draw up its particular characters." (Blyth 1844); "Schoenicola Blyth, 1844, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 13, p. 374. Type, by monotypy, Thimalia platyura Jerdon." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 49).
Var. Schaenicola.
Synon. Catriscus.

brevirostre / brevirostris
Mod. L. brevirostris  having a short beak  < L. brevis  short; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

SUBSPECIES

Fan-tailed Grassbird (alexinae)
SCI Name: Schoenicola brevirostris alexinae
alexinae
Alexandrine “Alexine” Petronella Francina Tinné (1839-1869) Dutch traveller, ethnographer, pioneer photographer, explorer in the Sudan 1861-1864 and Libya 1869 (syn. Elminia longicauda teresita, subsp. Schoenicola brevirostris).

Fan-tailed Grassbird (brevirostris)
SCI Name: Schoenicola brevirostris brevirostris
brevirostre / brevirostris
Mod. L. brevirostris  having a short beak  < L. brevis  short; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.