Chattering Cisticola / Cisticola anonymus
Chattering Cisticola
SCI Name:
Protonym: Drymoeca anonyma J.Orn. 3 p.89,197
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cisticolidae / Cisticola
Taxonomy Code: chacis1
Type Locality:
Author: von Müller, JW
Publish Year: 1855
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CISTICOLA
(Cisticolidae; † Zitting Cisticola C. juncidis cisticola) Gr. κιστις kistis little basket < dim. κιστη kistē basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell (cf. specific name Sylvia cisticola Temminck, 1820 (= subsp. Cisticola juncidis)); the Zitting Cisticola, formerly known as Fan-tailed Warbler, is the only European member of this wide-ranging Old World, predominantly Afrotropical, genus of small monomorphic warblers; “2. Sylvia cisticola. ... 2. Zistensänger. Cisticola. E[ntwickelung]. Wie gewöhnlich. Ch[arakter]. Kleine Oleandersänger mit hellrostfarbigem, schwarz geflecktem Rücken. L[ebensart]. Sie leben wie die übrigen Rohrsänger, bauen aber ein trichterförmiges Nest ins hohe Gras.” (Kaup 1829); "Cisticola Kaup, 1829, Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte Europäisch. Thierwelt, p. 119. Type, by tautonymy, Sylvia cisticola Temminck." (Traylor in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 84).
Var. Cisiticola.
Synon. Calamanthella, Cistodyta, Drymodyta, Drymodytops, Dryodromas, Hemipteryx, Merion, Neocisticola, Nephelicola, Pseudhemipteryx, Rhathymodyta, Tachydyta, Threnetes, Threnodyta, Threnodytops, Threnolais.
cisticola
Gr. κιστις kistis little basket < dim. κιστη kistē basket; L. -cola dweller < colere to dwell.
anonyma / anonymous / anonymus
Gr. ανωνυμος anōnumos nameless < negative prefix αν- an- ; ονομα onoma, ονοματος onomatos name.
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)