Alagoas Tyrannulet

SCI Name:  Phylloscartes ceciliae
Protonym:  Phylloscartes ceciliae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 107 p.37-41
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tyrannidae / Phylloscartes
Taxonomy Code:  alatyr1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Teixeira
Publish Year:  1987
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

PHYLLOSCARTES
(Tyrannidae; Ϯ Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet P. ventralis) Gr. φυλλον phullon  leaf; σκαιρω skairō  to skip, to dance; "Gen. PHYLLOSCARTES **) nov. gen. — Laub-Tachuri.   183. 1. P. ventralis Nob.   Muscicapa ventralis "Natt." Temm. Pl. col. 275. 2. — Tyrannulus ventralis Id. Tabl. méth. p. 27. — Elania ventralis Gray Gen. B. I. p. 250. 15. — Leptopogon ventralis Bp. Consp. I. p. 186. — Euscarthmus ventralis Burm. Th. Bras. II. p. 491.   ...   **) Von φυλλον (Laub) und σκαρτης (Springer).  Diese Gattung erinnert im Gefieder schon ganz an Leptopogon, hat aber einen breitern Schnabel mit weniger abgerundeter Firste und zeigt auch noch die für die Todinae characteristischen hohen Läufe." (Cabanis & Heine 1859); "Phylloscartes Cabanis and Heine, 1859, Mus. Heineanum, 2, p. 52. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa ventralis Temminck." (Traylor in Peters 1979, VIII, 63).
Synon. Guracava, Leptotriccus, Phyllooecia.

ceciliae
• Prof. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (b. 1939) French palaeontologist (‡ Asphaltoglaux).
• Mary Rothes Margaret Cecil née Tyssen-Amherst 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney (1857-1919) archaeologist, ornithologist, wife of courtier Col. Lord William Cecil (subsp. Balearica pavonina).
• "Dedicata la presente specie in atto di ossequio alla gentilissima Siga. Cecilia Turri [1844-1891]" (Benvenuti 1866) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz) (syn. Camplylopterus falcatus).
• Cécile Estelle Atala Gautrau née Lesson (1819-1845) first daughter of French naturalist René Lesson (Metriopelia, syn. Oreotrochilus estella).
• Cecilia Torres (1952-1985) Mexican wife of Brazilian ornithologist Dr Dante Luiz Martins Teixeira (Phylloscartes).