Piranga Roseogularis Bird
Piranga Roseogularis Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Pyranga roseo-gularis BostonJ.Nat.Hist. 5 p.416
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Piranga
Taxonomy Code: rottan1
Type Locality: road from Chemax [, Yucatan] to Yalahao, Yucatan [=Yalahau, Quintana Roo].
Author: Cabot, S
Publish Year: 1846
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PIRANGA
(Cardinalidae; Ϯ Summer Tanager P. rubra) Güaraní name Pirangá red (bird), for a small bird, a finch or a tanager ("Πυρ, fire, (colour of the plumage)" (Ashmolean 1836)) (cf. “Tijepiranga” of Marcgrave 1648, a name for the Troupial Icterus); "No 12. Bec du Piranga incarnat, Piranga rubra. Cet oiseau que les auteurs ont rangé parmi les Tangaras, Tanagra Mississipensis, æstiva, LINN. GM., et d'autres parmi les Moucherolles, Muscicapa rubra, LINN. édit. 12, diffère assez des uns et des autres pour constituer un nouveau genre, dont le caractère principal est d'avoir le bec gros, alongé, droit, déprimé à sa base, convexe dessus et dessous, légèrement entaillé et recourbé à l'extrémité de sa partie supérieure." (Vieillot 1807); "Piranga Vieillot, 1808, Hist. Nat. Ois. Amér. Sept., 1 (1807), p. iv. Type, by monotypy, Muscicapa rubra Linnaeus, 1776 = Fringilla rubra Linnaeus, 1758." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 301).
Var. Pyranga , Pynanga.
Synon. Diplochilus, Merula, Phoenisoma.
roseogularis
L. roseus rosy < rosa rose; Mod. L. gularis throated < L. gula throat.
SUBSPECIES
Rose-throated Tanager (roseogularis)
Latin Name: Piranga roseogularis roseogularis
roseogularis
L. roseus rosy < rosa rose; Mod. L. gularis throated < L. gula throat.
Rose-throated Tanager (tincta)
Latin Name: Piranga roseogularis tincta
tincta / tinctum / tinctus
L. tinctus tinged, dyed < tingere to tinge.
Rose-throated Tanager (cozumelae)
Latin Name: Piranga roseogularis cozumelae
cozumelae / cozumelana
Cozumel I., Quintana Roo, Mexico (Mayan Ah Cuzamil Peten island of swallows).
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)