Subtropical Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium parkeri

Subtropical Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium parkeri

Subtropical Pygmy-Owl

SCI Name:  Glaucidium parkeri
Protonym:  Glaucidium parkeri WilsonBull. 107 p.1-6
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae /
Taxonomy Code:  supowl1
Type Locality:  
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Publish Year:  1995
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.

parkeri
● Shane Alwyne Parker (1943-1992) English ornithologist, emigrated to Australia 1967, Curator of Birds at South Australian Mus. 1976-1991, collector, marine zoologist (subsp. Acanthagenys rufogularis, subsp. Barnardius zonarius, subsp. Hylacola pyrrhopygia).
● Theodore 'Ted' Albert Parker III (1953-1993) US field ornithologist with an unparalleled knowledge of Neotropical birds, tragically killed in an air-crash (Cercomacroides, Glaucidium, Herpsilochmus, subsp. Metallura theresiae, subsp. Phainoptila melanoxantha, Phylloscartes, Scytalopus, subsp. Thamnophilus stictocephalus).
● Prof. Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897) English biologist, university administrator, resident in New Zealand 1880-1897 (‡syn. Euryapteryx geranoides, ‡syn. Porphyrio mantelli).