Krüper’s Nuthatch / Sitta krueperi
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Krüper's Nuthatch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sitta krüperi Sitz.K.Akad.Wiss.Wien 48 p.149
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code: krunut1
Type Locality: Smyrna.
Author: von Pelzeln
Publish Year: 1863
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.
krueperi
Theobald Johannes Krüper (1829-1921) German ornithologist, collector (Sitta).
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)
