Ocellated Thrasher

SCI Name:  Toxostoma ocellatum
Protonym:  Harporhynchus ocellatus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.18 pl.3
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mimidae / Toxostoma
Taxonomy Code:  ocethr1
Type Locality:  Oaxaca [southwestern Mexico].
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TOXOSTOMA
(Mimidae; Ϯ Curve-billed Thrasher T. curvirostre) Gr. τοξον toxon   bow, arch; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos  mouth; "Genus Toxostoma, Bogenschnabel. (Genus novum.)   54. Toxostoma Vetula (species nova).  Notaeo toto e fuliginoso-cinereo, exclusa alae flexura albida et macula in apice rectricum quaternarum, externarum candida (versus rectrices interiores sensim minore); gastraeo toto albido, fusco-cinereo nubilo; rostro arcuato nigro. Adult.   Chietotottotl Hernand. Thes. p. 31. cap. 80." (Wagler 1831); "Toxostoma Wagler, 1831, Isis von Oken, 24, p. 528. Type, by monotypy, Toxostoma vetula Wagler = Orpheus curvirostris Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 449).
Var. Toxastoma, Taxostoma.
Synon. Antimimus, Harpes, Harporhynchus, Methriopterus.

ocellata / ocellatum / ocellatus
L. ocellatus  ocellated, marked with eyelets < ocellus  eyelet  < dim. oculus  eye.
● ex “Capocier” or “Capolier” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 130, fig. 1 (syn. Prinia maculosa).
● ex “Caille de l’Isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (Turnix).

SUBSPECIES

Ocellated Thrasher (ocellatum)
SCI Name: Toxostoma ocellatum ocellatum
ocellata / ocellatum / ocellatus
L. ocellatus  ocellated, marked with eyelets < ocellus  eyelet  < dim. oculus  eye.
● ex “Capocier” or “Capolier” of Levaillant 1801-1804, pl. 130, fig. 1 (syn. Prinia maculosa).
● ex “Caille de l’Isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776 (Turnix).

Ocellated Thrasher (villai)
SCI Name: Toxostoma ocellatum villai
villai
Prof. Bernardo Villa Ramírez (1911-2006) Mexican zoologist (subsp. Melospiza melodia, subsp. Toxostoma ocellatum).