Sitta Nagaensis Bird

Sitta Nagaensis Bird

Sitta Nagaensis Bird

English Name:  Chestnut-vented Nuthatch
Latin Name:  Sitta nagaensis
Protonym:  Sitta nagaensis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.44
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Sittidae / Sitta
Taxonomy Code:  chvnut1
Type Locality:  Naga Hills, Burma.
Author:  Godwin-Austen
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

SITTA
(Sittidae; Ϯ Eurasian Nuthatch S. europaea) Late Med. L. sitta (Turner 1544) nuthatch  < Gr. σιττη sittē  bird like a woodpecker mentioned by Aristotle, Callimachus, and Hesychius; "55. SITTA.  Rostrum subcultrato-conicum, rectum, porrectum: integerrimum, mandibula superiore obtusiuscula.  Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sitta Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 115. Type, by monotypy, Sitta europaea Linnaeus." (Greenway in Peters 1967, XII, 125). Linnaeus's Sitta comprised a single species.
Var. Sitla, Sida.
Synon. Arctositta, Callisitta, Cyanositta,  Dendrophila, Homositta, Leptositta, Melositta, Mesositta, Micrositta, Oenositta, Orthorynchus, Poecilositta, Poliositta, Rupisitta, Sittella.

nagaense / nagaensis
Naga Hills, Burma/Myanmar.

SUBSPECIES

Chestnut-vented Nuthatch (nagaensis)
Latin Name: Sitta nagaensis nagaensis
nagaense / nagaensis
Naga Hills, Burma/Myanmar.

Chestnut-vented Nuthatch (grisiventris)
Latin Name: Sitta nagaensis grisiventris
grisiventris
Med. L. griseum  grey; L. venter, ventris  belly.