Red-and-white Spinetail / Certhiaxis mustelinus
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Red-and-white Spinetail
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Protonym: Synallaxis mustelina Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.14
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Certhiaxis
Taxonomy Code: rawspi2
Type Locality: Rio Madeira, and Pebas, Peru; type from the Rio Madeira, below the mouth of the Rio Marmellos.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1874
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CERTHIAXIS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Yellow-chinned Spinetail C. cinnamomea) Portmanteau of genera Certhia Linnaeus, 1758, treecreeper, and Synallaxis Vieillot, 1818, spinetail; "LVI. Cinnycerthia cinnamomea, Lesson, g. et sp. nov. L'oiseau qui sert de type au genre cinnycerthie tient à la fois des sucriers, des grimpereaux, des cœreba et des troglodytes américains. Par son bec, c'est un sucrier ou un cœreba; par ses tarses, c'est un grimpereau; par sa coloration, son port, il est presque semblable au certhia cinnamomea de Cayenne, type de notre genre certhiaxis, mais il n'a pas le sommet des rectrices usé ou formant pointe" (Lesson 1844); "Certhiaxis LESSON, Echo du Monde Savant, II (2), No. 8, p. 182, July 1844—type by orig. desig. Certhia cinnamomea GMELIN." (Hellmayr, 1925, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IV, p. 112).
Synon. Leptoxyura.
mustelina / mustelinus
L. mustelinus like a weasel (i.e. chestnut, or tawny, and white) < mustela weasel < dim. mus, muris mouse.
● ex “Tawny Thrush” of Latham 1783, and Pennant 1785 (Hylocichla).
● ex “Great Pied Mountain Finch” of Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, “Pied Mountain Finch” of Albin 1731-1738, and “Tawny Bunting” of Latham 1783 (syn. Plectrophanes nivalis).
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)
