Brown-backed Scrub-Robin / Cercotrichas hartlaubi
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Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
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Protonym: Erythropygia hartlaubi J.Orn. 39 p.63
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Cercotrichas
Taxonomy Code: bbsrob1
Type Locality: Mutjara [= Mutsora, near Ruwenzori, Congo].
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1891
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CERCOTRICHAS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Black Scrub Robin C. podobe) Gr. κερκος kerkos tail; τριχας trikhas, τριχαδος trikhados thrush; alluding to the long, expressive tail of the Black Scrub Robin; "Cercotrichas. Unter diesen Namen vereinige ich Turdus phoenicopterus Tem. T. erythropterus, T. macrourus Lath. T. tricolor Vieill. Afr. pl. 14. Sax. leucampter Museum Berl." (Boie 1831); "Cercotrichas Boie, 1831, Isis, p. 542. Type, by subsequent designation (Finsch and Hartlaub, 1870, Vög. Ost.-Afr., p. 249), Turdus erythropterus Gmelin = Turdus podobe Müller." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 27).
Synon. Aedon, Agrobates, Erythropygia, Podobeus.
hartlaubi
Carl Johann Gustav Hartlaub (1814-1900) German ornithologist, collector (syn. Calidris falcinellus, Cercotrichas, syn. Corythornis cristatus cyanostigma, syn. Coua coquereli, Dacnis, Euplectes, syn. Euplectes gierowii ansorgei, syn. Hemicircus concretus, Horizocerus, syn. Lamprotornis chalybaeus, syn. Loriculus philippensis apicalis, syn. Neafrapus cassini, Otus, Pternistis, Tauraco).
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)
