Torrent-lark / Grallina bruijnii
WBN 
Torrent-lark
SCI Name:
Protonym: Grallina bruijni Ann.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Genova 7(1875) p.929
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Grallina
Taxonomy Code: torlar1
Type Locality: Arfak Mountains, northwestern New Guinea.
Author: Salvadori
Publish Year: 1876
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GRALLINA
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Magpie-lark G. cyanoleuca) Mod. L. grallinus with stilts < L. grallae stilts < obsolete gradula little step < gradus step; "135. GRALLINE, Grallina. Bec grêle, droit, un peu arrondi, alongé, convexe en dessus; mandibule supérieure courbée et échancrée à la pointe. — Tarses alongés. — Queue médiocre. — Ailes longues, arrondies. — Ongles antérieurs très-petits; le postérieur très-fort, trés-crochu. Esp. nouv. (I) ... (I) GRALLINE NOIRE ET BLANCHE, Gallina [sic] melanoleuca. ... habite la Nouvelle-Hollande." (Vieillot 1816); "Grallina Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 42. Type, by monotypy, Grallina melanoleuca Vieillot = Corvus cyanoleucus Latham." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 159).
Var. Gallina.
Synon. Colobathris, Grallipes, Pomareopsis, Tanypus.
bruijni / bruijnii
Capt. Antonie Augustus Bruijn (1842-1890) Dutch Navy, naturalist, trader in the Moluccas, engaged in the New Guinea plume trade (Aepypodius, syn. Chalcopsitta insignis, Drepanornis, Grallina, Micropsitta).
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)
