Black-capped Rufous-Warbler / Bathmocercus cerviniventris
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Black-capped Rufous-Warbler
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Protonym: Apalis cerviniventris Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.22
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Bathmocercus
Taxonomy Code: bkcruw1
Type Locality: Gold Coast, West Africa.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Data Deficient
DEFINITIONS
BATHMOCERCUS
(Cisticolidae; Ϯ Black-faced Rufous-warbler B. rufus) Gr. βαθμος bathmos step < βαινω bainō to walk; κερκος kerkos tail; "Bathmocercus n. g. Timeliidarum. Rostro mediocri, paullum decurvato; vibrissis brevibus; cauda valde gradata (rectricum numero dubio); alis brevibus, rotundatis, caudae basin superantibus, remigibus 4—7 longissimis, primo tectrices primarias multo superante, longissimorum dimidio fere aequali, tertio decimo aequali; tarsis longis, digiti medii longitudinem superantibus; pedibus extensis caudae apicem attingentibus. Typus: Bathmocercus rufus Rchw. (Ornith. Monatsberichte, 1895, No. 6). Bathmocercus vulpinus, sp. nov. ... Bathmocercus murinus, sp. nov." (Reichenow 1895); "Bathmocercus Reichenow, 1895 (3 July), Novit. Zool., 2, p. 159. Type, by original designation, Bathmocercus rufus Reichenow. Same generic description Reichenow, 1895 (July), Ornith. Monatsber., 3, p. 113." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 31).
Synon. Bathmedonia.
cerviniventris
L. cervinus stag-coloured < cervus stag; venter, ventris belly.
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)
