Przevalski’s Nuthatch / Sitta przewalskii
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Przevalski's Nuthatch
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Protonym: Sitta przewalskii Av.Exped.Potanini p.119
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code: prznut1
Type Locality: Mindscheu District, upper Chuanche [= Hwang ho] , eastern Tsinghai, China.
Author: Berezowski & Bianchi
Publish Year: 1891
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.
przewalskii
Gen. Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky (1839-1888) Russian Army, explorer, naturalist in Central Asia (subsp. Cinclus cinclus, subsp. Eremophila longirostris, Grallaria, syn. Lanius excubitor homeyeri, syn. Loxia curvirostra tianschanica, subsp. Saxicola torquatus, Sinosuthora, Sitta, subsp. Tetraogallus tibetanus).
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)
