Chestnut-backed Owlet / Glaucidium castanotum
WBN 
Chestnut-backed Owlet
SCI Name:
Protonym: Athene castanonota Cat.BirdsMus.As.Soc. p.39
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code: chbowl1
Type Locality: Ceylon.
Author: Blyth
Publish Year: 1851
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
GLAUCIDIUM
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern Pygmy Owl G. passerinum) Gr. γλαυκιδιον glaukidion little owl, owlet < dim. γλαυξ glaux, γλαυκος glaukos owl; "IV. Fam. Strigidae ... Glaucidium: St. nana Tem; passerina Lin. u. a. m." (Boie 1826); "Glaucidium Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 970. Type, by subsequent designation, Strix passerina Linné (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 6)." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 127).
Var. Gaucidium.
Synon. Microglaux, Microptynx, Noctua, Nyctipetes, Phalaenopsis, Smithiglaux, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx.
castanotum / castanotus
Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back.
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)
