Choco Poorwill / Nyctiphrynus rosenbergi
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Choco Poorwill
SCI Name:
Protonym: Caprimulgus rosenbergi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 5 p.10
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Caprimulgidae / Nyctiphrynus
Taxonomy Code: chopoo1
Type Locality: Rio Dagua, Colombia.
Author: Hartert, E
Publish Year: 1895
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
NYCTIPHRYNUS
(Caprimulgidae; Ϯ Ocellated Poorwill N. ocellatus) Gr. νυκτι- nukti- night-, nocturnal < νυξ nux, νυκτος nuktos night; φρυνη phrunē, φρυνης phrunēs toad; "11. Nyctiphrynus, Bp. 41. ocellatus, Tschudi. (brasilianus? Wied nec L.) 42. nuttalli, Audub. (brasilianus? Lawr.) 43. guianensis, Gm." (Bonaparte 1857); "Nyctiphrynus Bonaparte, Riv. Contemp., 9, 1857, p. 215. Type, by subsequent designation, Caprimulgus ocellatus Tschudi. (Oberholser, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 86, 1914, p. 8, note 5.)" (Peters 1940, IV, 195).
Synon. Otophanes, Ptilonycterus.
rosenbergi / rosenbergii
● William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868-1957) British natural history dealer, collector in tropical America (Amazilia, syn. Erythrothlypis salmoni, Nyctiphrynus, subsp. Pittasoma rufopileatum, subsp. Rhytipterna holerythra, subsp. Schiffornis veraepacis, syn. Sipia nigricauda, subsp. Xiphorhynchus susurrans).
● Carl Benjamin Hermann Freiherr von Rosenberg (1817-1888) German naturalist, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (Gymnocrex, syn. Mino anais orientalis, Myzomela, Pitta, syn. Rhipidura threnothorax, Scolopax, Trichoglossus, Tyto).
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)
