Bahia Tapaculo / Eleoscytalopus psychopompus
WBN 
Bahia Tapaculo
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Protonym: Scytalopus psychopompus Bol.Mus.Nac.RiodeJaneiro(n.s.) (n.s.), no.331 p.1-11
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Rhinocryptidae / Eleoscytalopus
Taxonomy Code: bahtap1
Type Locality:
Author: Teixeira & Carnevalli
Publish Year: 1989
IUCN Status: Endangered
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).
psychopompus
Gr. ψυχοπομπος psukhopompos the guide of souls, an epithet of the ferryman Charon, a god of Hell who conducted the souls of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron < ψυχη psukhē ghost, departed spirit; πομπος pompos guide; "O presente trabalho dá prosseguimento a estas contribuições, com a descrição de uma nova espécie do gênero Scytalopus Gould, 1837 (Rhinocryptidae), a qual nomeamos em alusão à entidade mitológica que conduzia a alma dos mortos, cuja figura por vezes foi associada à de uma pequena ave" (Teixeira & Carnevalli 1989) (Eleoscytalopus).
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)
