Stripe-backed Wren

SCI Name:  Campylorhynchus nuchalis
Protonym:  Campylorhynchus nuchalis Arch.Naturgesch. 13 p.206
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Troglodytidae / Campylorhynchus
Taxonomy Code:  stbwre2
Type Locality:  Cumana, Sucre, Venezuela.
Author:  Cabanis
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CAMPYLORHYNCHUS
(Troglodytidae; Ϯ Thrush-like Wren C. turdinus) Gr. καμπυλος kampulos  curved, bent  < καμπτω kamptō  to bend; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "GENUS I. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS.  Turdinus; rostro longiusculo, arcuato, crassiusculo, ad basin latiusculo, versus apicem cylindrico; naribus ovatis, subbasalibus, non obtectis; digito postico reliquis crassiore; alis breviusculis; rictu oris usque ad oculos elongato.   SPECIES 1. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS SCOLOPACEUS.   ...   Habitat in sylvis Rio de Janeiro.   SPECIES 2. CAMPYLORHYNCHUS STRIOLATUS.   ...   Habitat in provincia Bahiae." (von Spix 1824); "Campylorhynchus Spix, 1824, Av. Brasil., 1, p. 77. Type, by subsequent designation, Opetiorhynchus turdinus Wied (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p.25. (Not preoccupied by Campylirhynchus "Mergerle", 1821.)" (Paynter in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 379).
Var. Kampilorynchus, Kampylorhynchus, Campilorhynchus.
Synon. Buglodytes, Heleodytes, Psalter.

nuchale / nuchalis
Mod. L. nuchalis  of the nape, nuchal  < Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.
● ex “Perruche à face rouge” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (syn. Glossopsitta pusilla).

SUBSPECIES

Stripe-backed Wren (pardus)
SCI Name: Campylorhynchus nuchalis pardus
pardus
Gr. παρδος pardos leopard.

Stripe-backed Wren (brevipennis)
SCI Name: Campylorhynchus nuchalis brevipennis
brevipennis
Mod. L. brevipennis  short-winged  < L. brevis  short; -pennis  -winged  < penna  feather.

Stripe-backed Wren (nuchalis)
SCI Name: Campylorhynchus nuchalis nuchalis
nuchale / nuchalis
Mod. L. nuchalis  of the nape, nuchal  < Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.
● ex “Perruche à face rouge” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (syn. Glossopsitta pusilla).