Grand Comoro Brush-Warbler / Nesillas brevicaudata

Grand Comoro Brush-Warbler / Nesillas brevicaudata

Grand Comoro Brush-Warbler

SCI Name:  Nesillas brevicaudata
Protonym:  Ellisia brevicaudata Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.(2), 10 p.249,text
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acrocephalidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gcbwar1
Type Locality:  Grand Comoro Island.
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Publish Year:  1888
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DEFINITIONS

NESILLAS
(Acrocephalidae; Ϯ Madagascar Brush-warbler N. typica) Gr. νησος nēsos  island (= Madagascar); ιλλας illas, ιλλαδος illados  thrush; "ELLISIA Hartlaub.  The genus Ellisia Hartlaub [1860] must give way to Ellisia Forbes and Goodsir [1840], for a group of Polypi.  As Thamnornis Milne-Edwards, type chloropetoides, appears to be sufficiently distinct for generic separation, a new name is necessary for the species of Ellisia proper; and Nesillas, from νησος, insula, and ιλλας, turdus, is proposed, the type being Ellisia typica Hartlaub." (Oberholser 1899).
Synon. Ellisia.

brevicaudata / brevicaudatus
L. brevis  short; caudatus  tailed  < cauda  tail.