Slender-billed Flufftail / Sarothrura watersi
WBN 
Slender-billed Flufftail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Zapornia watersi Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1879) (1879), Pt4 p.772
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Sarothruridae / Sarothrura
Taxonomy Code: slbflu1
Type Locality: Southeast Betsileo Country, Madagascar.
Author: Bartlett, E
Publish Year: 1880
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
SAROTHRURA
(Sarothruridae; Ϯ Striped Flufftail S. affinis) Gr. σαρωτρον sarōtron broom < σαιρω sairō to sweep; ουρα oura tail; "Genus Sarothrura Heine [Corethrura Rchb. 1853 nec Gray 1846]." (Heine 1890); "Sarothrura Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, p. 319. New name for Corethrura Reichenbach, 1853 (not Corethrura Gray, 1846.) Type, by original designation, Gallinula jardinei A. Smith = Alecthelia lineata Swainson [= Crex affinis A. Smith]." (Peters 1934, II, 194).
Var. Saurothrura.
Synon. Alecthelia, Corethrura, Daseioura, Lemurolimnas.
watersi
Thomas Waters (or Watters) (1840-1904) British consular service in East Africa, collector in Madagascar (Sarothrura).
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)
