Plumbeous Forest-Falcon / Micrastur plumbeus
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Plumbeous Forest-Falcon
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Protonym: Micrastur plumbeus Bull.Br.Orn.Club 38 p.44
Taxonomy: Falconiformes / Falconidae / Micrastur
Taxonomy Code: plffal1
Type Locality: Rio Bogota, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
Author: Sclater, WL
Publish Year: 1918
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
MICRASTUR
(Falconidae; Ϯ Collared Forest Falcon M. semitorquatus) Gr. μικρος mikros little, short; genus Astur de Lacépède, 1799, goshawk; "MICRASTUR, G. R. Gray (1841). Brachypterusc, Less. (1837). Astur, Spix. M. brachypterus, (Temm.) G. R. Gray, Pl. col. 141. F. concentricus, Ill. ... cPreviously used ending in yx." (G. Gray 1841); "Micrastur G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1841, p. 6. Type, by original designation, Falco brachypterus Temminck = Sparvius semitorquatus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, 1, 276) (see Brachypterus).
Var. Micraster.
Synon. Brachypterus, Carnifex, Clamosocircus, Climacocercus, Nothierax, Rhyncomegas, Thrasyaccipiter.
plumbeum / plumbeus
L. plumbeus plumbeous, lead-coloured < plumbum lead.
● ex “Brown-fronted Parrakeet” of Latham 1781 (syn. Eupsittula pertinax).
● "95. TURDUS. ... plumbeus. 9. S. cærulescens, gula atra. Turdus viscivorus plumbeus. Catesb. car. I. p. 30. t. 30. Habitat in America." (Linnaeus 1758) (Turdus).
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)
