Cryptic Forest-Falcon / Micrastur mintoni
WBN 
Cryptic Forest-Falcon
SCI Name:
Protonym: WilsonBull.(2002) (2002), 114 p.421,422,front.
Taxonomy: Falconiformes / Falconidae / Micrastur
Taxonomy Code: cryfof1
Type Locality:
Author: Whittaker
Publish Year: 2003
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MICRASTUR
(Falconidae; Ϯ Collared Forest Falcon M. semitorquatus) Gr. μικρος mikros little, short; genus Astur de Lacépède, 1799, goshawk; "MICRASTUR, G. R. Gray (1841). Brachypterusc, Less. (1837). Astur, Spix. M. brachypterus, (Temm.) G. R. Gray, Pl. col. 141. F. concentricus, Ill. ... cPreviously used ending in yx." (G. Gray 1841); "Micrastur G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1841, p. 6. Type, by original designation, Falco brachypterus Temminck = Sparvius semitorquatus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, 1, 276) (see Brachypterus).
Var. Micraster.
Synon. Brachypterus, Carnifex, Clamosocircus, Climacocercus, Nothierax, Rhyncomegas, Thrasyaccipiter.
mintoni
Dr Clive Dudley Thomas Minton (b. 1934) British metallurgist, ornithologist, emigrated to Australia 1978, bird-ringer (Micrastur).
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)
