Long-billed Woodcreeper / Nasica longirostris
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Long-billed Woodcreeper
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Protonym: Dendrocopus longirostris Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 26 p.117
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Nasica
Taxonomy Code: lobwoo1
Type Locality: Brazil; restricted to Boca do Igarape Piaba, near Obidos, by Griscom and Greenway.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1818
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
NASICA
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Long-billed Woodcreeper N. longirostris) L. nasica long-nosed < nasus nose; "LXXII.e Genre. NASICAN, Nasica. Dendrocolaptes, Herm.? Bec très-long, presque droit, très-étroit, assez épais, à bords droits et lisses, à mandibule supérieure recourbée, dentée. Fosses nasales ovalaires, couvertes d'une membrane; narines percées en fente; ailes alongées, à troisième rémige la plus longue; queue moyenne, cunéiforme, à rectrices terminées par des tiges pointues, roides; tarses épais, courts, scutellés. NASICAN GRIMPAR; Nasica nasalis: Picucule nasican, Levaill., Prom., pl. 24; Cuv., Reg. anim., t. I, p. 431. ... Habite le Brésil." (Lesson 1830); "Nasica Lesson, Traité d'Orn., livr. 4, 1830, p. 311. Type, by monotypy, Nasica nasalis Lesson = Dendrocopus longirostris Vieillot." (Peters 1951, VII, 24).
nasica
L. nasica long-nosed, pointed-nosed < nasus nose.
longirostris
L. longus long; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak. Var. Longirostra.
● ex “Long-billed Thrush” of Latham 1783 (‡Acrocephalus).
● ex “Manchot de la Nouvelle Guinée” of Sonnerat 1776 (syn. Aptenodytes patagonicus).
● ex “Troupiale” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 532 (syn. Icterus icterus).
● ex “Grimpar Nasican” of Levaillant 1807 (Nasica).
● ex “Râle à long bec de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 849, and “Long-billed Rail” of Latham 1785 (Rallus).
Longirostris
(syn. Limnodromus Ϯ Short-billed Dowitcher L. grisea) L. longus long; -rostris
-billed < rostrum beak; "Longirostris is, I think, preferable to Macroramfus [sic] for the genus Longbeak" (C. T. Wood 1836). Var. Longirostra (Wood 1837: "Brown Longbeak. Macroramfe ponctue, - Roth M[acroramfe]. Longirostra grisea, Wood. .. Longbeak, Longirostris, Wood").
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)
