Broad-tailed Grassbird / Schoenicola platyurus
WBN 
Broad-tailed Grassbird
SCI Name:
Protonym: Thimalia platyura MadrasJ.Lit.Sci. 13 p.170
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Locustellidae / Schoenicola
Taxonomy Code: brtgra2
Type Locality: Goodaloor, foot of the Neilgherries (= Nilgiris).
Author: Jerdon
Publish Year: 1841
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
SCHOENICOLA
(Locustellidae; Ϯ Broad-tailed Grassbird S. platyurus) L. schoenus rush, reed < Gr. σχοινος skhoinos reed, rush; -cola dweller < colere to dwell; "Following the Sphenura should rank Mr. Jerdon's Timalia platyura, for which I have suggested to him the generic name Schœnicola; but I have not a specimen now by me wherefrom to draw up its particular characters." (Blyth 1844); "Schoenicola Blyth, 1844, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 13, p. 374. Type, by monotypy, Thimalia platyura Jerdon." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 49).
Var. Schaenicola.
Synon. Catriscus.
platyurus
Gr. πλατυς platus broad; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
Platyurus
(syn. Merulaxis Ϯ Slaty Bristlefront M. ater) Gr. πλατυς platus broad; ουρα oura tail; "PLATYURUS, Sw. ... Tail (typically) lengthened and graduated; the feathers very soft and broad. Feet very large. ... P. corniculatus. Braz. B. pl. 55. affinis. Ib. pl. 57. niger. Part 5. No. 128. rubecola. Braz. B. pl. 14. (aberrant.) lepturus. Kittlitz. pl. 5" (Swainson 1837).
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)
