Rhynchopsitta Pachyrhyncha Bird

Rhynchopsitta Pachyrhyncha Bird

Rhynchopsitta Pachyrhyncha Bird

English Name:  Thick-billed Parrot
Latin Name:  Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
Protonym:  Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Philos.Mag.n.s. n.s., 1 p.439
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Rhynchopsitta
Taxonomy Code:  thbpar
Type Locality:  Tableland of Mexico.
Author:  Swainson
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Endangered

DEFINITIONS

RHYNCHOPSITTA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Thick-billed Parrot R. pachyrhynchus) Gr. ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; Mod. L. psitta  parrot  < Gr. ψιττακη psittakē  parrot; "Subfam. I. MACROCERCINÆ.   ...   3. RHYNCHOPSITTA, Bp. — 13. Pachyrhyncha, Sw." (Bonaparte 1854); "Rhynchopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 149. Type, by monotypy, Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson." (Peters 1937, III, 192).
Var. Rhyncopsitta, Rhynchopsittacus.

pachyrhyncha
Gr. παχυς pakhus large, thick, stout; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill.