Subdesert Brush-Warbler / Nesillas lantzii

Subdesert Brush-Warbler / Nesillas lantzii

Subdesert Brush-Warbler

SCI Name:  Nesillas lantzii
Protonym:  Ellisia Lantzii Rev.Mag.Zool.(2), Tome 19, 30ème Année p. 86
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acrocephalidae /
Taxonomy Code:  subbrw1
Type Locality:  west coast, Madagascar.
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Publish Year:  1867
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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.

lantzii
Jean Auguste Lantz (1828-1893) French naturalist, taxidermist, collector in Madagascar 1865-1870, and the Seychelles 1877, Curator of Natural History Mus., Réunion 1862-1893 (syn. Accipiter madagascariensis, Nesillas).