Pycnonotus Bimaculatus Bird
Pycnonotus Bimaculatus Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Turdus bimaculatus Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.147
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code: orsbul3
Type Locality: Java; type specimen ''an East Javan bird,'' fide Robinson and Kloss, 1920, Journ. Straits Br. R. Asiat. Soc. (1919), no. 81, p. 103.
Author: Horsfield
Publish Year: 1821
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
PYCNONOTUS
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Cape Bulbul P. capensis) Gr. πυκνος puknos thick, compact; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back; alluding to the thickly feathered back of the Cape Bulbul and many other bulbuls; "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae. ... Pycnonotus Kuhl: Turdus capensis Lin. Vaill. Afr. pl. 105 u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Pycnonotus "Kuhl" Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 19, p. 973. Type, by monotypy, Turdus capensis Linnaeus." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 223).
Var. Pychnonotus, Picnonotus, Picncnotus.
Synon. Alcurus, Bonapartia, Bostrycholophus, Brachypus, Centrolophus, Crocopsis, Elathea, Gymnocrotaphus, Haematornis, Hemitarsus, Ixodia, Kelaartia, Loidorusa, Malayornis, Meropixus, Mesolophus, Molpastes, Nok, Oreoctistes, Otocompsa, Pachycephalixus, Phacelias, Rubigula, Sphagias, Squamatornis, Stictognathus, Trachycomus, Xanthixus.
bimaculata / bimaculatus
Mod. L. bimaculatus two-spotted, double-spotted < L. bi- double < bis twice; maculatus spotted < maculare to make spotted < macula spot.
SUBSPECIES
Orange-spotted Bulbul (bimaculatus)
Latin Name: Pycnonotus bimaculatus bimaculatus
bimaculata / bimaculatus
Mod. L. bimaculatus two-spotted, double-spotted < L. bi- double < bis twice; maculatus spotted < maculare to make spotted < macula spot.
Orange-spotted Bulbul (tenggerensis)
Latin Name: Pycnonotus bimaculatus tenggerensis
tenggerensis
Tenger or Tengger Mts., Java, Indonesia.
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)