White-winged Flufftail / Sarothrura ayresi
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White-winged Flufftail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Coturnicops ayresi Ibis p.352 pl.7
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Sarothruridae / Sarothrura
Taxonomy Code: whwflu1
Type Locality: Transvaal, type from Potchefstroom.
Author: Gurney, JH
Publish Year: 1877
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
SAROTHRURA
(Sarothruridae; Ϯ Striped Flufftail S. affinis) Gr. σαρωτρον sarōtron broom < σαιρω sairō to sweep; ουρα oura tail; "Genus Sarothrura Heine [Corethrura Rchb. 1853 nec Gray 1846]." (Heine 1890); "Sarothrura Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, p. 319. New name for Corethrura Reichenbach, 1853 (not Corethrura Gray, 1846.) Type, by original designation, Gallinula jardinei A. Smith = Alecthelia lineata Swainson [= Crex affinis A. Smith]." (Peters 1934, II, 194).
Var. Saurothrura.
Synon. Alecthelia, Corethrura, Daseioura, Lemurolimnas.
ayresi / ayresii
● Thomas Ayres (1828-1913) English naturalist, brewer, big-game hunter, collector resident in South Africa 1850-1913, and Australia 1852-1854 (syn. Anaplectes rubriceps, Cisticola, Hieraaetus, syn. Ploceus angolensis, Sarothrura).
● Dr William Orville Ayres (1817-1887) US physician, ichthyologist (syn. Colaptes cafer).
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)
