Fülleborn’s Longclaw / Macronyx fuelleborni

Fülleborn\'s Longclaw / Macronyx fuelleborni

Fülleborn's Longclaw

SCI Name:  Macronyx fuelleborni
Protonym:  Macronyx füllebornii Orn.Monatsb. 8 p.39
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Motacillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  fuelon2
Type Locality:  Unika highlands, south Tanganyika.
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Publish Year:  1900
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DEFINITIONS

MACRONYX
(Motacillidae; Ϯ Orange-throated Longclaw M. capensis) Gr. μακρος makros  long, great; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos  claw; "MACRONYX.   ...   Bill moderate, straight, the culmen slightly arched.  Nostrils naked, large, the aperture oblong.  Wings rather short, the four first quills equal and longest.  Tail slightly rounded.  Feet long; the lateral scales of the tarsi entire; the nail of the hind toe very long and curved.   Type. L'Alouette Sentinelle. Levaill., Ois. pl. 195." (Swainson 1827); "Macronyx Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 344. Type, by original designation, "L'Alouette sentinelle" of Levaillant = Alauda capensis Linnaeus" (White in Peters 1960, IX, 142).

macronyx
Gr. μακρος makros  long, great; ονυξ onux, ονυχος onukhos  claw, nail.

fuelleborni / fuellebornii
Dr Friedrich Fülleborn (1866-1933) German naturalist, academic in German East Africa 1896-1900 (syn. Campethera cailliautii nyansae, syn. Caprimulgus vexillariusChamaetylas, Cinnyris, subsp. Glareola pratincola, syn. Gyps africanus, Laniarius, Macronyx, syn. Melaniparus leucomelas insignis, subsp. Muscicapa adusta, syn. Ploceus bertrandi).

SUBSPECIES

Fülleborn's Longclaw (fuelleborni)
SCI Name: Macronyx fuelleborni fuelleborni
fuelleborni / fuellebornii
Dr Friedrich Fülleborn (1866-1933) German naturalist, academic in German East Africa 1896-1900 (syn. Campethera cailliautii nyansae, syn. Caprimulgus vexillariusChamaetylas, Cinnyris, subsp. Glareola pratincola, syn. Gyps africanus, Laniarius, Macronyx, syn. Melaniparus leucomelas insignis, subsp. Muscicapa adusta, syn. Ploceus bertrandi).

Fülleborn's Longclaw (ascensi)
SCI Name: Macronyx fuelleborni ascensi
ascensi
Dr Michele Ascenso (fl. 1906) Italian physician in the Congo, collector (subsp. Macronyx fuellebornii).