Ara Chloropterus Bird
Ara Chloropterus Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Ara chloropterus ListBirdsBrit.Mus. pt3 sect.2 p.26
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Ara
Taxonomy Code: ragmac1
Type Locality:
Author: Gray, GR
Publish Year: 1859
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ARA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Scarlet Macaw A. macao) Tupí onomatopoeia Ará for the macaws, but also used in combination to indicate bird (e.g. Araçarí, Araponga). Arára is a general name for parrots. "PREMIER GENRE. ARA. (Ara.) Le bec gros et convexe; la mandibule supérieure pointue, recourbée sur l'inférieure, et mobile; la langue épaisse, charnue et arrondie à son extrémité; une place dénuée de plumes sur chaque joue. ESPÈCES. 1. L'ara rouge. Ara Macao. XI, 250. 2. L'ara bleu. Ara ararauna. XI, 272. 3. L'ara verd. Ara severus. XI, 274. 4. L'ara noir. Ara ater. XI, 284. 5. Le petit ara rouge. Ara aracanga. XI, 259. 6. La perriche ara. Ara makawuanna. XI, 384." (de Lacépède 1799); "Ara Lacépède, Tableaux Ois., 1799, p. 1. Type, by subsequent designation, Psittacus macao Linné. (Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 50, pt. 7, 1916, p. 119.)" (Peters, 1937, III, p. 180).
Synon. Aracanga, Araclanga, Ararauna, Hemipsittacus, Macao, Macrocercus, Maracanus, Paracus.
chloroptera / chloropterus
Gr. χλωρος khlōros yellow; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
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)