Blue-faced Rail / Gymnocrex rosenbergii
Blue-faced Rail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Rallina rosenbergii Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 3 p.212
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Gymnocrex
Taxonomy Code: bafrai2
Type Locality: Kema, Celebes.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1866
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
GYMNOCREX
(Rallidae; Ϯ Blue-faced Rail G. rosenbergii) Gr. γυμνος gumnos bare, naked; genus Crex Bechstein, 1803, corncrake; "Gen. nov. Gymnocrex, SALVAD. (γνμνος [sic] nudus et crex). Novum genus ex familia Rallidarum; rostro capitis longitudinem aequante, basi valde elevato, apicem versus attenuato, naribus ovalibus; lateribus capitis late nudis; tarsis elongatis; digitis brevibus, praesertim halluce; alis latis; cauda mediocri, rectricibus mollibus. Typus: Rallina rosenbergii, Schleg. Sp. 75. Gymnocrex rosenbergii (SCHLEG.) ... Questa specie è ben descritta dallo Schlegel, ma certamente non appartiene al genere Rallina; il becco molto alto alla base ed assottigliato alla punta, ed il grande spazio nudo intorno agli occhi, specialmente nella parte posteriore, distinguono questa forma da tutte le altre." (Salvadori 1875); "Gymnocrex Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. vii. p. 678, 1875. Type (by monotypy): Rallina rosenbergii Sch." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 85).
Synon. Schizoptila.
rosenbergi / rosenbergii
● William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868-1957) British natural history dealer, collector in tropical America (Amazilia, syn. Erythrothlypis salmoni, Nyctiphrynus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Rhytipterna holerythra, subsp. Schiffornis veraepacis, syn. Sipia nigricauda, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Carl Benjamin Hermann Freiherr von Rosenberg (1817-1888) German naturalist, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (Gymnocrex, syn. Mino anais orientalis, Myzomela, Pitta, syn. Rhipidura threnothorax, Scolopax, Trichoglossus, Tyto).
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)