Alta Floresta Antpitta / Hylopezus whittakeri
WBN 
Alta Floresta Antpitta
SCI Name:
Protonym: Hylopezus whittakeri Auk 129(2) 338-351
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Grallariidae / Hylopezus
Taxonomy Code: alfant1
Type Locality:
Author: Carneiro et al.
Publish Year: 2012
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
HYLOPEZUS
(Grallariidae; † Streak-chested Antpitta H. perspicillatus) Gr ὑλη hulē woodland, forest; πεζος pezos walking < πατεω pateō to walk; "Hylopezus gen. nov. ... Related to Grallaria Vieillot but nasal fossæ longer and narrower ... nostrils more linear and separated from frontal feathering by naked integument; much weaker and more slender (nearly terete) bill, etc. Type.- Grallaria perspicillata Lawrence. ('Yλη, a wood, forest; πεζος, walking.)" (Ridgway 1909); "Hylopezus RIDGWAY, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 21, 1909, p. 71 (type [by original designation] Grallaria perspicillata LAWRENCE)." (Hellmayr, 1924, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. III, 334).
Var. Hylopezas.
whittakeri
Andrew Whittaker (b. 1960) English ornithologist resident in Brazil, ringer, conservationist, authority on Amazonian birds, tour leader (subsp. Hylopezus macularius).
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)
