Eclectus Roratus Bird

English Name:  Eclectus Parrot
Latin Name:  Eclectus roratus
Protonym:  Psittacus roratus Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.77
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Eclectus
Taxonomy Code:  eclpar
Type Locality:  Amboina.
Author:  Statius Muller
Publish Year:  1776
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ECLECTUS
(Psittacidae; † Moluccan Eclectus E. roratus) Gr. εκλεκτος eklektos  selected, chosen  < εκλεκτοω eklektoō  to be separated; the male Eclectus Parrots have shining green plumage, with red flanks and blue in the wings; the females are markedly different, with shining red and purple plumage;  "Eclectus *) Wagl., Edellori ...  plumae capitis collique discretae, subsericeae ...  *) Eκλεκτος electus" (Wagler 1832); "Eclectus Wagler, 1832, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl. 1: 495.  Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840. List Gen. Birds: 52), Psittacus grandis Gmelin = Psittacus roratus (P. L. S. Müller)." (Beehler and Pratt, 2016, Birds New Guinea, p. 264).
Var. Electus.
Synon. Larius, Polychlorus.

roratus
L. roratus  bedewed  < rorare  to bedew  < ros, roris  dew; the “Tau Kakatu” dew cockatoo, of Statius Müller 1776, from the sleek, glistening plumage of the Eclectus Parrot; ex “Lori de la Nouvelle Guinée” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 683 (Eclectus).

SUBSPECIES

Eclectus Parrot (Moluccan)
Latin Name: Eclectus roratus roratus/vosmaeri
ECLECTUS
(Psittacidae; † Moluccan Eclectus E. roratus) Gr. εκλεκτος eklektos  selected, chosen  < εκλεκτοω eklektoō  to be separated; the male Eclectus Parrots have shining green plumage, with red flanks and blue in the wings; the females are markedly different, with shining red and purple plumage;  "Eclectus *) Wagl., Edellori ...  plumae capitis collique discretae, subsericeae ...  *) Eκλεκτος electus" (Wagler 1832); "Eclectus Wagler, 1832, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl. 1: 495.  Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840. List Gen. Birds: 52), Psittacus grandis Gmelin = Psittacus roratus (P. L. S. Müller)." (Beehler and Pratt, 2016, Birds New Guinea, p. 264).
Var. Electus.
Synon. Larius, Polychlorus.

Eclectus Parrot (Sumba)
Latin Name: Eclectus roratus cornelia
cornelia
● Cornelia Schlegel née Buddingh’ (1815-1864) Dutch first wife of German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel (subsp. Eclectus roratus).
● Eponym (Salvadori 1878, Atti Reale Accad. Sci. Torino, 13, 319) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); probably after a relative of Count Salvadori, or an inference to the Cornelii, a patrician family of ancient Rome whose members included Cornelia, the first wife of Julius Caesar, and the virtuous Cornelia Africana Minor, second daughter of the general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (subsp. Leptocoma aspasia).

Eclectus Parrot (Tanimbar)
Latin Name: Eclectus roratus riedeli
riedeli / riedelii
Dr Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel (1832-1911) Dutch colonial administrator in the East Indies 1853-1883, naturalist (subsp. Eclectus roratus, Ficedula, syn. Ixobrychus eurhythmus, syn. Lalage sueurii, syn. Pachycephala monacha arctitorquis, subsp. Phyllergates cucullatus, Tanysiptera).

Eclectus Parrot (Papuan)
Latin Name: Eclectus roratus [polychloros Group]
ECLECTUS
(Psittacidae; † Moluccan Eclectus E. roratus) Gr. εκλεκτος eklektos  selected, chosen  < εκλεκτοω eklektoō  to be separated; the male Eclectus Parrots have shining green plumage, with red flanks and blue in the wings; the females are markedly different, with shining red and purple plumage;  "Eclectus *) Wagl., Edellori ...  plumae capitis collique discretae, subsericeae ...  *) Eκλεκτος electus" (Wagler 1832); "Eclectus Wagler, 1832, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl. 1: 495.  Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840. List Gen. Birds: 52), Psittacus grandis Gmelin = Psittacus roratus (P. L. S. Müller)." (Beehler and Pratt, 2016, Birds New Guinea, p. 264).
Var. Electus.
Synon. Larius, Polychlorus.