Gambaga Flycatcher / Muscicapa gambagae
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Gambaga Flycatcher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Alseonax gambagae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 12 p.11
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Muscicapa
Taxonomy Code: gamfly1
Type Locality: Gambaga, Gold Coast.
Author: Alexander
Publish Year: 1901
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MUSCICAPA
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Spotted Flycatcher M. striata) L. musca fly < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; capere to catch; "Genus Muscicapæ ... Le genre du Gobe-mouche ... MUSCICAPA" (Brisson 1760); based on "Curruca" or "Ficedula" of Gessner 1555, "Grisola" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, "Stoparola" of Willughby 1676, "Curruca subfusca" of Frisch 1733-1743, and "Sylvia pestilentialis" of Klein 1750; "Muscicapa Brisson, 1760, Ornith., 1, p. 32; 2, p. 357, pl. 5, fig. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Muscicapa = Motacilla striata Pallas." (Watson in Peters, 1986, XI, 313). The Spotted Flycatcher is the archetypal flycatcher, perching stolidly, then darting out to seize passing insects before returning to its perch.
Var. Muscicopa, Musicapa, Mussicapa, Muscapa.
Synon. Alseonax, Arizelomyia, Butalis, Hemichelidon, Myiotheras, Stoparola.
muscicapa
L. musca fly < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; capere to catch.
gambagae
Gambaga, Gold Coast/Ghana.
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)
