Cozumel Thrasher / Toxostoma guttatum
Cozumel Thrasher
SCI Name:
Protonym: Harporhynchus guttatus Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 3 p.21
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Mimidae / Toxostoma
Taxonomy Code: cozthr1
Type Locality: Cozumel [Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico].
Author: Ridgway
Publish Year: 1885
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
TOXOSTOMA
(Mimidae; Ϯ Curve-billed Thrasher T. curvirostre) Gr. τοξον toxon bow, arch; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos mouth; "Genus Toxostoma, Bogenschnabel. (Genus novum.) 54. Toxostoma Vetula (species nova). Notaeo toto e fuliginoso-cinereo, exclusa alae flexura albida et macula in apice rectricum quaternarum, externarum candida (versus rectrices interiores sensim minore); gastraeo toto albido, fusco-cinereo nubilo; rostro arcuato nigro. Adult. Chietotottotl Hernand. Thes. p. 31. cap. 80." (Wagler 1831); "Toxostoma Wagler, 1831, Isis von Oken, 24, p. 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 449).
Var. Toxastoma, Taxostoma.
Synon. Antimimus, Harpes, Harporhynchus, Methriopterus.
guttatum / guttatus
L. guttatus spotted, speckled < gutta spot, drop.
● ex “Esparvero pardo y goteado” (= ☼) of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 24 (syn. Accipiter bicolor pileatus).
● ex “Perroquet Amazone varié du Brésil” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 120 (?syn. Amazona ochrocephalus).
● ex “Grimpar Picucule” of Levaillant 1807 (Xiphorhynchus).
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)