Zapata Wren

SCI Name:  Ferminia cerverai
Protonym:  Ferminia cerverai Proc.NewEngl.Zool.Cl. 9 p.74
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Troglodytidae / Ferminia
Taxonomy Code:  zapwre1
Type Locality:  Santo Tomas, Cienaga de Zapata, Las Villas, Cuba.
Author:  Barbour
Publish Year:  1926
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

FERMINIA
(Troglodytidae; Ϯ Zapata Wren F. cerverai) Fermín Zanón Cervera (1875-1944) Spanish soldier, landowner, naturalist in Cuba; "Ferminia cerverai gen. et sp. nov.  Generic characters: A medium-sized Troglodytid, with a small rounded wing, a long broad tail, and plumage of back and tail curiously soft and degenerate (somewhat recalling that of Bowdleria, but the tail less decomposed).  Bill medium in length, compressed, almost straight; slightly shorter than head; rictal bristles obvious; the anterior feathers of the forehead acuminate, with heavy stiffened rachides and ill-developed webs (somewhat recalling other birds of palustrine association, as some rails, or Phacellodomus, etc.)  Wing very short, weak, rounded; first and second primaries very short, third primary slightly shorter than the others, which are about equal in length.  Tail long and broad, the rectrices all distinctly broadened; distinctly longer than wing   ...   Type: Museum of Comparative Zoology, no. 235,226, an adult male from Santo Tomas, Peninsula de Zapata, Cuba, collected by Fermin Z. Cervera, in whose honor the genus and species are named." (Barbour 1926) (Laurent Raty in litt.); "Ferminia Barbour, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Cl., 9, p. 74, Oct., 1926—type, by orig. desig., Ferminia cerverai Barbour." (Hellmayr, 1934, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. VII, p. 216).

cerverai
Fermín Zanón Cervera (1875-1944) Spanish soldier, landowner and naturalist in Cuba (Cyanolimnas, Ferminia).