Scaly-throated Leaftosser

SCI Name:  Sclerurus guatemalensis
Protonym:  Tinactor guatemalensis Rev.Zool. 7 p.370
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Sclerurus
Taxonomy Code:  sctlea1
Type Locality:  no locality = Guatemala by inference.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SCLERURUS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Black-tailed Leaftosser S. caudacutus) Gr. σκληρος sklēros  stiff; ουρα oura  tail; "The shaft of the tail feathers is stiff and its tip is very sharp" (Vaurie 1980); "SCLERURUS.  Rostrum sub-elongatum vel longiusculum, emarginatum, obtusum; culmine versusapicem leviter arcuato.  Alæ mediocres, rotundatæ, remigibus 1^ma et 2^da gradatis, 3^tia, 4^ta et 5^ta æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda lata, rigida, rotundata.  Pedes graciles, breves, digito exteriore prima phalange tenus medio conjuncto, interiore ad basin connexo; halluce gracili, subcurvato, leviter emarginato." (Swainson 1827); "Sclerurus Swainson, Zool. Journ., 3, 1827, p. 356. Generic characters only; species added,² Cabanis, Arch. Naturg., 13, 1847, Bd. 1, p. 231. Type, by subsequent designation, Thamnophilus caudacutus Vieillot (Cabanis, loc. cit.).   ...   ² The two specific names associated with this genus by Swainson in Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 315 are both nomina nuda." (Peters 1951, VII, 148).
Var. Scelurus.
Synon. Geooecia, Oxypyga, Tinactor.

guatemalae / guatemalensis / guatimalensis
Guatemala (Nahuatl name Cuauhtēmallān place of many trees).

SUBSPECIES

Scaly-throated Leaftosser (guatemalensis)
SCI Name: Sclerurus guatemalensis guatemalensis
guatemalae / guatemalensis / guatimalensis
Guatemala (Nahuatl name Cuauhtēmallān place of many trees).

Scaly-throated Leaftosser (salvini)
SCI Name: Sclerurus guatemalensis salvini
salvini / salvinii
Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) English ornithologist, Curator of Ornithology, Cambridge University 1874-1882, collector (syn. Accipiter erythronemius ventralis, syn. Alaemon alaudipes, syn. Amazilia violiceps, subsp. Amazona autumnalis, Antrostomus, subsp. Basileuterus rufifrons, syn. Certhidea olivacea, subsp. Chlorostilbon canivetii, subsp. Colinus virginianus, syn. Crypturellus variegatus, subsp. Cyphorhinus arada, subsp. Empidonax flavescens, subsp. Eubucco bourcierii, subsp. Eutoxeres aquila, subsp. Geospiza parvula, subsp. Habia fuscicauda, syn. Heliodoxa xanthogonys, subsp. Icterus mesomelas, subsp. Knipolegus poecilurus, subsp. Lampornis amethystinus, Mitu, subsp. Neomorphus geoffroyi, Oneillornis, Pachyptila, subsp. Pachyramphus albogriseus (ex Pachyramphus similis Salvin, 1895), subsp. Paraclaravis mondetoura, subsp. Picumnus exilis, syn. Popelairia conversii, subsp. Sclerurus guatemalensis, subsp. Sicalis olivascens, subsp. Spindalis zena, subsp. Sporophila funerea, Thalassarche, syn. Tinamus major fuscipennis, Tumbezia, subsp. Vireo pallens).

Scaly-throated Leaftosser (ennosiphyllus)
SCI Name: Sclerurus guatemalensis ennosiphyllus
ennosiphyllus
Gr. εννοσιφυλλος ennosiphullos with quivering foliage, shaking leaves < ενοσις enosis shaking; φυλλον phullon leaf.