Mangrove Gerygone

SCI Name:  Gerygone levigaster
Protonym:  Gerygone levigaster Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1842) (1842), Pt10 no.117 p.133
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acanthizidae / Gerygone
Taxonomy Code:  manger1
Type Locality:  Port Essington, Northern Territory. Corrected to laevigaster by Gould himself (1848, Birds Australia, pt. 34) and by most subsequent authors.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GERYGONE
(Acanthizidae; Ϯ White-throated Gerygone G. olivacea) Gr. γηρυγονος gērugonos  echoes  < γηρυω gēruō  to sing; γονη gonē  offspring, child; "I found it in considerable numbers in every part of the Upper Hunter district, nearly always among the gum-trees, and constantly uttering a peculiar and not very harmonious strain" (Gould 1865); "These birds having been characterised by me under the generic name of Psilopus; but that term having been previously employed in Entomology I propose to alter it to Gerygone" (Gould 1841); "Gerygone Gould, 1841, in G. Grey, Journ. Two Exped. Discovery Northwest Western Australia, 2, p. 417, note. New name for Psilopus Gould, 1838, preoccupied by Psilopus Meigen, 1824." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 444).  
Var. Gerigone, Gerypont.
Synon. Ethelornis, Hapolorhynchus, Leptotodus, Maorigerygone, Ostiarius, Pseudogerygone, Psilopus, Royigerygone, Tinamulus, Wilsonavis.

levigaster
Original spelling of specific name Gerygone laevigaster Gould, 1843.

SUBSPECIES

Mangrove Gerygone (pallida)
SCI Name: Gerygone levigaster pallida
pallida
L. pallidus  pallid, pale, wan, sallow  < pallere  to be pale.

Mangrove Gerygone (levigaster)
SCI Name: Gerygone levigaster levigaster
levigaster
Original spelling of specific name Gerygone laevigaster Gould, 1843.

Mangrove Gerygone (cantator)
SCI Name: Gerygone levigaster cantator
cantator / cantatoris
L. cantator, cantatoris  singer  < cantare  to sing  < canere  to sing.
● ex “Carillonneur de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 700, fig. 2 (Hypocnemis).