Tamaulipas Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium sanchezi
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Tamaulipas Pygmy-Owl
SCI Name:
Protonym: Glaucidium sanchezi Occ.Pap.Mus.Zool.LSU no.22 p.1-4
Taxonomy: Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code: tapowl1
Type Locality:
Author: Lowery & Newman
Publish Year: 1949
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
GLAUCIDIUM
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern Pygmy Owl G. passerinum) Gr. γλαυκιδιον glaukidion little owl, owlet < dim. γλαυξ glaux, γλαυκος glaukos owl; "IV. Fam. Strigidae ... Glaucidium: St. nana Tem; passerina Lin. u. a. m." (Boie 1826); "Glaucidium Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 970. Type, by subsequent designation, Strix passerina Linné (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 6)." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 127).
Var. Gaucidium.
Synon. Microglaux, Microptynx, Noctua, Nyctipetes, Phalaenopsis, Smithiglaux, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx.
sanchezi
Carlos Sánchez Mejorada, Jr. (fl. 1948) Mexican sponsor, naturalist (Glaucidium).
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)
