Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper / Drymornis bridgesii
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Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper
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Protonym: Nasica bridgesii Contrib.Orn.[Jardine](1849) -1849 p.130 pl.38
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Drymornis
Taxonomy Code: scbwoo4
Type Locality: Interior of Bolivia; error, the type probably was taken in Mendoza, fide Hellmayr.
Author: Eyton
Publish Year: 1849
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
DRYMORNIS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper D. bridgesii) Gr. δρυμος drumos woodland, copse; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "DRYMORNIS, EYTON. Bill long, moderately arcuated, slender, somewhat quadrate, one of the angles forming the upper ridge, fourth quill longest. bridgesii, Nob. pucherani, Lafres." (Eyton 1852); "Drymornis Eyton, Contr. Orn. for 1852, 1853, p. 23. Type, by subsequent designation, Nasica bridgesii Eyton (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 29)." (Peters, 1951, VII, p. 24).
bridgesi / bridgesii
Dr Thomas Charles Bridges (1807-1865) English botanist, zoologist, collector in tropical America 1822-1865 (syn. Ara rubrogenys, Drymornis, syn. Larus modestus, subsp. Penelope obscura, syn. Pionus maximiliani siy, Thamnophilus, syn. Upucerthia andaecola).
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)
