Slender-billed Xenops

SCI Name:  Xenops tenuirostris
Protonym:  Xenops tenuirostris Sitz.K.Akad.Wiss.Wien 34 p.112,133
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Furnariidae / Xenops
Taxonomy Code:  slbxen1
Type Locality:  Salto do Girao, Rio Madeira, Brazil.
Author:  von Pelzeln
Publish Year:  1859
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

XENOPS
(Furnariidae; Ϯ Plain Xenops X. minutus) Gr. ξενος xenos  stranger; ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  face, countenance; "GENUS 25. XENOPS Hoffmannsegg (ξενος inusitatus, novus,  ωψ vultus) (Steigschnabel Germ.)   Rostrum mediocre, rectum porrectum, conicum acutum valde compressum, inverse cultratum i.e. culmine recto, gonyde recurva ascendente. Tomia integerrima.  Nares basales, laterales, ovatae, patulae.  Lingua. . . . .  Alae mediocres.  Cauda mediocris, emarginata, rectricibus 12 laxis, lateralibus brevioribus.   Pedes ambulatori, mediocres, congrui.  Digiti antici basi coadunati, laterales subaequales, medio breviores.  Hallux digitum medium aequans.  Unguis posticus antico medio paullo major.  Acropodia scutulata.   Species: Xenops genibarbis n. sp. e Cametà Brasiliae" (Illiger 1811); "Xenops Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 213. Type, by monotypy, Xenops genibarbis Illiger." (Peters 1951, VII, 143).
Var. Zenops.
Synon. Anecorhamphus, Neops.

tenuirostra / tenuirostre / tenuirostris
L. tenuis, tenue  slender; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

SUBSPECIES

Slender-billed Xenops (acutirostris)
SCI Name: Xenops tenuirostris acutirostris
acutirostris
L. acutus  sharp-pointed  < acuere  to sharpen to a point; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.

Slender-billed Xenops (hellmayri)
SCI Name: Xenops tenuirostris hellmayri
hellmayri
Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878-1944) Austrian/US ornithologist (subsp. Accipiter fasciatus, subsp. Anthoscopus caroli, Anthus, subsp. Attila rufus, subsp. Campylorhamphus trochilirostris, subsp. Catharus fuscater, subsp. Celeus elegans, syn. Chloroceryle americana cabanisii, Cinnyris, syn. Conopophaga lineata, Cranioleuca, syn. Crypturellus strigulosus, subsp. Cyanerpes caeruleus, subsp. Dendrocincla tyrannina, Drymophila, subsp. Empidonax occidentalis, subsp. Geositta cunicularia, syn. Geositta rufipennis fasciata, subsp. Hemithraupis flavicollis, subsp. Isleria hauxwelli, subsp. Lepidocolaptes angustirostris, subsp. Leptopogon superciliaris, subsp. Leptotila rufaxilla, Mecocerculus, subsp. Myioborus miniatus, subsp. Myiozetetes cayanensis, syn. Nonnula rubecula, subsp. Oenanthe familiaris, syn. Petronia petronia, subsp. Piaya cayana, syn. Pitangus sulphuratus, subsp. Poecile palustris, subsp. Pyriglena leuconota, subsp. Rhynchocyclus brevirostris, subsp. Saltator aurantiirostris, syn. Selenidera gouldii, subsp. Sporophila caerulescens, Synallaxis, subsp. Tanygnathus megalorhynchos, subsp. Terenotriccus erythrurus, syn. Thamnophilus schistaceus dubius, subsp. Tyto alba, subsp. Xenops tenuirostris).

Slender-billed Xenops (tenuirostris)
SCI Name: Xenops tenuirostris tenuirostris
tenuirostra / tenuirostre / tenuirostris
L. tenuis, tenue  slender; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.