Miombo Rock-Thrush Monticola angolensis Scientific name definitions
Nigel Collar
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2005
Text last updated January 1, 2005
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Afrikaans | Angolakliplyster |
Catalan | merla roquera del miombo |
Danish | Miombostendrossel |
Dutch | Miomborotslijster |
English | Miombo Rock-Thrush |
English (Kenya) | Miombo Rock Thrush |
English (UK) | Miombo Rock Thrush |
English (United States) | Miombo Rock-Thrush |
French | Monticole angolais |
French (France) | Monticole angolais |
German | Miomborötel |
Japanese | ホシイソヒヨ |
Norwegian | miombosteintrost |
Polish | nagórnik plamkowany |
Portuguese (Angola) | Melro-das-rochas-do-miombo |
Russian | Ангольский каменный дрозд |
Serbian | Miombo kos kamenjar |
Slovak | skaliar škvrnitý |
Spanish | Roquero Angoleño |
Spanish (Spain) | Roquero angoleño |
Swedish | miombostentrast |
Turkish | Miombo Taşkızılı |
Ukrainian | Скеляр ангольський |
Monticola angolensis Sousa, 1888
PROTONYM:
Monticola angolensis
Sousa, 1888. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes. Publicado sob os Auspicios da Academia Real das Sciencas de Lisboa (1), 12, p.225,233.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Caconda, Benguella, Angola.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- MONTICOLA
- monticola
- angolae / angolense / angolensis / angolica / angolicus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: 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)
Field Identification
Systematics History
Editor's Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections. Please bear with us while this update takes place.
Parapatric with M. brevipes. Geographical variation possibly mainly clinal, plumage becoming paler from E & N to S, and races intergrading; species perhaps better treated as monotypic. Two subspecies tentatively recognized.Subspecies
SUBSPECIES
Monticola angolensis angolensis Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Angola and S DRCongo E to N, S and SW Tanzania and Rwanda and S to N Zambia.
Monticola angolensis angolensis Sousa, 1888
PROTONYM:
Monticola angolensis
Sousa, 1888. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes. Publicado sob os Auspicios da Academia Real das Sciencas de Lisboa (1), 12, p.225,233.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Caconda, Benguella, Angola.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- MONTICOLA
- monticola
- angolae / angolense / angolensis / angolica / angolicus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: 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)
SUBSPECIES
Monticola angolensis hylophilus Scientific name definitions
Distribution
S Zambia, W Malawi, W Mozambique, NE Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Monticola angolensis hylophilus Clancey, 1965
PROTONYM:
Monticola angolensis hylophila
Clancey, 1965. Durban Museum Novitates 8 (1), p. 16.
TYPE LOCALITY:
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- MONTICOLA
- monticola
- angolae / angolense / angolensis / angolica / angolicus
- HYLOPHILUS
- hylophila / hylophilum / hylophilus
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: 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)
Distribution
Editor's Note: Additional distribution information for this taxon can be found in the 'Subspecies' article above. In the future we will develop a range-wide distribution article.