Pteroglossus Bitorquatus Bird

Pteroglossus Bitorquatus Bird

Pteroglossus Bitorquatus Bird

English Name:  Red-necked Aracari
Latin Name:  Pteroglossus bitorquatus
Protonym:  Pteroglossus bitorquatus Zool.J. 2 p.481 Suppl. pl.17
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Ramphastidae / Pteroglossus
Taxonomy Code:  renara1
Type Locality:  No locality = northeastern Brazil.
Author:  Vigors
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PTEROGLOSSUS
(Ramphastidae; Ϯ Black-necked Araçari P. aracari) Gr. πτερον pteron  feather; γλωσσα glōssa  tongue; "GENUS 4. PTEROGLOSSUS (πτερον penna  γλωσσα lingua) (Federzüngler Germ. Aracari Gall.)   Rostrum capite longius, crassum, tenue, inane, cultratum, basi margine incrassato, maxillae angulo frontali obtuso. Tomia serrata.  Nares superae, in maxillae basi. Lingua mediocris, angusta, pennacea.  Cauda gradata.  Pedes scansorii. Digiti externi internis longiores. Acropodia scutulata.   Species: Ramphastos Aracari, viridis Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Pteroglossus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 202. Type, by subsequent designation, Ramphastos aracari Linné. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1948, VI, 74).   
Synon. Aracari, Baillonius, Beauharnaisius, Grammarhynchus, Pyrosterna, Rhagoborus, Ulocomus.

bitorquata / bitorquatus
Mod. L. bitorquatus  double-banded, double-collared  < L. bi-  two-, double-  < bis  twice; torquatus  banded, collared  < torquis or torques  collar, neck-chain  < torquere  to twist.

SUBSPECIES

Red-necked Aracari (Western)
Latin Name: Pteroglossus bitorquatus sturmii
sturmii
Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm (1805-1862) German bird artist, collector (IxobrychusPteroglossus).

Red-necked Aracari (Eastern)
Latin Name: Pteroglossus bitorquatus bitorquatus/reichenowi
PTEROGLOSSUS
(Ramphastidae; Ϯ Black-necked Araçari P. aracari) Gr. πτερον pteron  feather; γλωσσα glōssa  tongue; "GENUS 4. PTEROGLOSSUS (πτερον penna  γλωσσα lingua) (Federzüngler Germ. Aracari Gall.)   Rostrum capite longius, crassum, tenue, inane, cultratum, basi margine incrassato, maxillae angulo frontali obtuso. Tomia serrata.  Nares superae, in maxillae basi. Lingua mediocris, angusta, pennacea.  Cauda gradata.  Pedes scansorii. Digiti externi internis longiores. Acropodia scutulata.   Species: Ramphastos Aracari, viridis Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Pteroglossus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 202. Type, by subsequent designation, Ramphastos aracari Linné. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1948, VI, 74).   
Synon. Aracari, Baillonius, Beauharnaisius, Grammarhynchus, Pyrosterna, Rhagoborus, Ulocomus.