Yellow-browed Oxylabes / Crossleyia xanthophrys
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Yellow-browed Oxylabes
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Protonym: Oxylabes xanthophrys Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.76
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Bernieridae / Crossleyia
Taxonomy Code: yeboxy1
Type Locality: Madagascar.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1875
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
CROSSLEYIA
(Bernieridae; † Madagascar Yellowbrow C. xanthophrys) Alfred Crossley (1839-1877) British taxidermist, collector in the Cameroons, Rhodesia and Madagascar 1870-1877; the Madagascar Yellowbrow was formely known as Yellow-browed Foditany; "Crossleyia, Hartl. ... Rostrum parvum, breviusculum, rectum, gracile, satis compressum, emarginatum, subcarinatum, apice maxillae leviter deflexo, gonyde dimidio apicali adscendente; naribus operculo subobtectis; vibrissis nonnullis breviusculis, mollibus ... Pedes majusculi, satis robusti, tarsis elongatis, totis caligatis ... Ptilosis tergi longa, densa, mollis. 106. Crossleyia xanthophrys, (Sh.) ... Crossley erlangte diesen Vogel im Innern der Nordhälfte Madagascars." (Hartlaub 1877); "Crossleyia Hartlaub, Vög. Madagas. p. 168, 1877. Type by monotypy, Oxylabes xanthophrys Sharpe." (W. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., II, p. 368).
Var. Crossleya.
xanthophrys
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; οφρυς ophrus, οφρυος ophruos eyebrow, brow.
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)
