The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Mytisa
(Maluridae; syn. Amytornis † Striated Grasswren A. striatus) Anagram of genus Amytis Lesson, 1831, grasswren; "985. MYTISA, gen. nov. Differs from Diaphorillas in having a larger and more slender bill. Type, Diaphorillas howei Mathews." (Mathews 1913); "Mytisa Mathews, 1913, Austral Avian Rec., 1, p. 196. Type, by original designation, Diaphorillas striatus howei Mathews [= Dasyornis striatus]." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 405).
Var. Mystisa.
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