Amazonian Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium hardyi
WBN 
Amazonian Pygmy-Owl
SCI Name:
Protonym: Glaucidium hardyi Rev.Brasil.Zool. 6 p.685-693
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code: amapyo1
Type Locality:
Author: Vielliard
Publish Year: 1989
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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.
hardyi / hardyii
● Flag-Lt. Herbert Ronald Hardy (1900-1950) Royal Navy, explorer in West Africa 1922, big-game hunter in Nepal (Martin Schneider in litt.) (syn. Apalis sharpii).
● Dr John William Hardy (1930-2012) US ornithologist, founder of Bioacoustic Laboratory and Archive, Florida Mus. of Natural History (syn. Cyanolyca mirabilis, Glaucidium).
● Jacques Josse Hardy (1798-1863) French ship-owner, oologist, ornithologist, hunter (syn. Stercorarius longicaudus).
● Vice-Adm. Ernest Clifford Hardy (1866-1934) Royal Navy, hydrographer, in China 1882 and West Africa 1910 (subsp. Sylvietta denti).
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)
