Grimwood’s Longclaw / Macronyx grimwoodi
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Grimwood's Longclaw
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Protonym: Macronyx grimwoodi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 75 p.102
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Motacillidae / Macronyx
Taxonomy Code: grilon1
Type Locality: Chitunta plain, Mwinilunga, Northern Rhodesia.
Author: Benson
Publish Year: 1955
IUCN Status: Data Deficient
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.
grimwoodi
Maj. Ian Robert Grimwood (1912-1990) British naturalist, conservationist, Chief Game Warden of Kenya 1959-1964 (Macronyx, subsp. Muscicapa aquatica, subsp. Sheppardia polioptera).
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)
