Chestnut-vented Nuthatch / Sitta nagaensis
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Chestnut-vented Nuthatch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sitta nagaensis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.44
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code: chvnut1
Type Locality: Naga Hills, Burma.
Author: Godwin-Austen
Publish Year: 1874
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch < Gr. σιττη sittē bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA. Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula. Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta, Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.
nagaense / nagaensis
Naga Hills, Burma/Myanmar.
SUBSPECIES
Chestnut-vented Nuthatch (nagaensis)
SCI Name: Sitta nagaensis nagaensis
nagaense / nagaensis
Naga Hills, Burma/Myanmar.
Chestnut-vented Nuthatch (grisiventris)
SCI Name: Sitta nagaensis grisiventris
grisiventris
Med. L. griseum grey; L. venter, ventris belly.
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)
