Gray-throated Rail / Canirallus oculeus
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Gray-throated Rail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Gallinula oculea J.Orn. 3 p.357
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Canirallus
Taxonomy Code: gytrai1
Type Locality: Rio Boutry, Gold Coast.
Author: Hartlaub
Publish Year: 1855
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CANIRALLUS
(Rallidae; Ϯ Grey-throated Rail C. oculeus) L. canus grey; genus Rallus Linnaeus, 1758, rail. "19. Gallinula oculea Temm. Major, pulchra; supra pure olivacea, occipite obscuriore, sincipite, facie, periophthalmiis et gula dilute cinereis" (Hartlaub 1855); "Aa. GALLINULEÆ. ... 134. Canirallus, Hartlaub. 410. oculeus, Temm. 411. kioloides, Pucher." (Bonaparte 1856); "Canirallus "Hartlaub" Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, 1856, p. 600. Type, by subsequent designation, Gallinula oculea Hartlaub (Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 23, 1894, p. 72)." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 180). Laurent Raty in litt., citing Witmer Stone, 1894, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 46, p. 140, raises the probability that the Madagascar Wood Rail Mentocrex kioloides is the true type of Canirallus.
Var. Conirallus.
oculea / oculeus
L. oculeus full of eyes (i.e. dotted with white or coloured spots) < oculus eye.
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)
