Charmosyna Multistriata Bird

Charmosyna Multistriata Bird

Charmosyna Multistriata Bird

English Name:  Striated Lorikeet
Latin Name:  Charmosyna multistriata
Protonym:  Charmosynopsis multistriata Bull.Br.Orn.Club 27 p.45
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Charmosyna
Taxonomy Code:  strlor1
Type Locality:  Upper Setekwa River, New Guinea.
Author:  Rothschild
Publish Year:  1911
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

CHARMOSYNA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Papuan Lorikeet C. papou) Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together; "Genus X.  Charmosyna ***) Wagl.  Sittichlori.   Rostrum, lingua et pedes Trichoglossorum; cauda longula, cuneata, rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis.   Australiae incola.  Vitae ratio ignota.  Species: 1. Ch. papuensis.   ...   ***) Xαρμοσυνος  amoenus. — Avis generis naturaliter connectit psittacos praecedentes longicaudatos [Trichoglossus] cum sequentibus [Eos], qui rubri sunt et caudam conico-acuminatam habent." (Wagler 1832); "Charmosyna Wagler, Abh. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 493. Type, by monotypy, Ch. papuensis = Psittacus papuensis Gmelin = Psittacus papou Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 158).
Var. Charmosina.
Synon. Charminetta, Charmosynopsis, Hypocharmosyna, Pyrrhodes.

charmosyna
Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together.

multistriata / multistriatus
L. multi-  many  < multus  much; striatus  striated  < striare  to striate  < stria  furrow.