White-breasted Tapaculo / Eleoscytalopus indigoticus
WBN 
White-breasted Tapaculo
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Protonym: Myiothera indigotica Beitr.Naturgesch.Brasil. 3 p.1091
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Rhinocryptidae / Eleoscytalopus
Taxonomy Code: whbtap1
Type Locality: near Baia, Brazil.
Author: zu Wied
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
ELEOSCYTALOPUS
(Rhinocryptidae; † White-breasted Tapaculo E. indigoticus) Gr. ἑλος helos, ἑλεος heleos marsh; genus Scytalopus Gould, 1837, tapaculo; "Eleoscytalopus gen. nov. ... Etymology. Eleos, from the Greek heleos, meaning swamp, refers to swampy forests, the preferred habitat of E. indigoticus and E. psychopompus; Scytalopus refers to the genus in which these two species were long included. Gender masculine" (Maurício et al. 2008); "Eleoscytalopus Maurício, Mata, Bornschein, Cadena, Alvarenga and Bonatto, 2008, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 49 (1), p. 125+. Type, by original designation, Myiothera indigotica zu Wied, 1831." (JAJ 2021).
indigotica / indigoticus
Mod. L. indigoticus indigo-blue < L. indicum indigo < Gr. ινδικον indikon indigo.
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)
