Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon / Micrastur mirandollei
WBN 
Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon
SCI Name:
Protonym: Astur mirandollei Mus.Hist.Pays-BasRev.Meth.Crit.Coll. livr.1 Astures no.4 p.27
Taxonomy: Falconiformes / Falconidae / Micrastur
Taxonomy Code: sbffal1
Type Locality: Surinam.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1862
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MICRASTUR
(Falconidae; Ϯ Collared Forest Falcon M. semitorquatus) Gr. μικρος mikros little, short; genus Astur de Lacépède, 1799, goshawk; "MICRASTUR, G. R. Gray (1841). Brachypterusc, Less. (1837). Astur, Spix. M. brachypterus, (Temm.) G. R. Gray, Pl. col. 141. F. concentricus, Ill. ... cPreviously used ending in yx." (G. Gray 1841); "Micrastur G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1841, p. 6. Type, by original designation, Falco brachypterus Temminck = Sparvius semitorquatus Vieillot." (Peters 1931, 1, 276) (see Brachypterus).
Var. Micraster.
Synon. Brachypterus, Carnifex, Clamosocircus, Climacocercus, Nothierax, Rhyncomegas, Thrasyaccipiter.
mirandollei
Charles Jean François Mirandolle (1827-1884) Dutch lawyer and politician born in Suriname (cf. his father Charles François Mirandolle (1789-1841) Dutch jurist, President of the Court of Justice, Suriname 1815-1831) (Micrastur).
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)
