Schlegel’s Asity / Philepitta schlegeli
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Schlegel's Asity
SCI Name:
Protonym: Philepitta schlegeli Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.422
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Philepittidae / Philepitta
Taxonomy Code: schasi1
Type Locality: Madagascar.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1867
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
PHILEPITTA
(Philepittidae; Ϯ Velvet Asity P. castanea) Portmanteau of genera Philedon Cuvier, 1817, friarbird, and Pitta Vieillot, 1816, pitta; “Genre PHILÉPITTE, PHILEPITTA. L'auteur compare successivement ce genre aux Brèves (Pitta), aux Martins, à divers sous-genres de Muscicapidés, et aux Philédons. Suivant M. Isidore Geoffroy, c'est près de ces derniers qu'il doit prendre rang. ... PHILÉPITTE VÉLOUTÉE, Philepitta sericea” (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1839); "Philepitta Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1838, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 6, p. 440. Type, by monotypy, Philepitta sericea Geoffroy St.-Hilaire = P. castanea P. L. S. Müller." (Amadon in Peters 1979, VIII, 330). Recent research indicates that the Velvet Asity and its allies may be aberrant broadbills Eurylaimidae.
Var. Philopitta.
Synon. Brissonia, Buddinghia, Paictes.
schlegeli
Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) German ornithologist (syn. Actitis hypoleucos, Arremon, syn. Bucorvus leadbeateri, Eudyptes, subsp. Henicophaps albifrons, subsp. Mandingoa nitidula, subsp. Penthoceryx sonneratii, Philepitta, syn. Pitta sordida cucullata, syn. Platysmurus leucopterus) (see schlegelii).
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)
