Pipraeidea Melanonota Bird

English Name:  Fawn-breasted Tanager
Latin Name:  Pipraeidea melanonota
Protonym:  Tanagra melanonota Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 32 p.407
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Pipraeidea
Taxonomy Code:  fabtan1
Type Locality:  Bresil [= Rio de Janeiro] .
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1819
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PIPRAEIDEA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Fawn-breasted Tanager P. melanonota) Genus Pipra Linnaeus, 1764, manakin; Gr. ειδος eidos  form, likeness; "Family Pipridæ.  PIPRAEIDEA.  Rostrum ut in genere Pipra. Alæ elongatæ, remigibus 1^ma, 2^da et 3^tia fere æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, fere æqualis.  Pedes breves, subfortes; digito exteriore medio ad basin conjuncto: tarsorum squamis anterioribus divisis, lateralibus integris.  ...  Type. P. cyanea.  ...  Habitat in Brasilia." (Swainson 1827); "Pipraeidea Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 173. Type, by [original designation and] monotypy, Pipraeidea cyanea Swainson = Tanagra melanonota Vieillot." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 339).
Var. Piproidea, Pipridea, Pipracidea, Pipraeida, Piproeidea.
Synon. Rauenia, Remsenornis.

melanonota / melanonotus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.
● ex “Pico de punzon azul y canala” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 104 (Pipraeidea).

SUBSPECIES

Fawn-breasted Tanager (venezuelensis)
Latin Name: Pipraeidea melanonota venezuelensis
venezuelae / venezuelana / venezuelanus / venezuelense / venezuelensis
Venezuela (Italian Venezuola, a diminutive of Venezia Venice, alluding to native houses on stilts in the waters of Lake Maracaibo).

Fawn-breasted Tanager (melanonota)
Latin Name: Pipraeidea melanonota melanonota
melanonota / melanonotus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.
● ex “Pico de punzon azul y canala” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 104 (Pipraeidea).