Sjöstedt’s Owlet / Glaucidium sjostedti

Sjöstedt\'s Owlet / Glaucidium sjostedti

Sjöstedt's Owlet

SCI Name:  Glaucidium sjostedti
Protonym:  Glaucidium sjöstedti Orn.Monatsb. 1 p.65
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  sjoowl1
Type Locality:  Cameroon Mountain.
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Publish Year:  1893
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

GLAUCIDIUM
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern Pygmy Owl G. passerinum) Gr. γλαυκιδιον glaukidion  little owl, owlet  < dim. γλαυξ glaux, γλαυκος glaukos  owl; "IV. Fam. Strigidae   ...  Glaucidium: St. nana Tem; passerina Lin. u. a. m." (Boie 1826); "Glaucidium Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 970. Type, by subsequent designation, Strix passerina Linné (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 6)." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 127).
Var. Gaucidium.
Synon. Microglaux, Microptynx, Noctua, Nyctipetes, Phalaenopsis, Smithiglaux, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx.

sjostedti / sjöstedti
Original spellings of eponym sjoestedti.