Tachyphonus Rufiventer Bird

English Name:  Yellow-crested Tanager
Latin Name:  Tachyphonus rufiventer
Protonym:  Tanagra rufiventer Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.37 pl.50 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tachyphonus
Taxonomy Code:  yectan1
Type Locality:  in sylvis Parae ; error, Sao Paulo de Olivenca, Rio Solimoes, Brazil, substituted by Hellmayr, 1920, Archiv f. Naturg., ser. A, 85(10), p. 28. Not preoccupied by Tanagra rufiventris Vieillot, 1819 (cf. Zimmer, 1945, Amer. Mus. Novit, no. 1304, p. 23).
Author:  von Spix
Publish Year:  1825
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TACHYPHONUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ White-lined Tanager T. rufus) Gr. ταχυφωνος takhuphōnos  fast speaking  < ταχυς takhus  fast; φωνεω phōneō  to speak; "71. TACHYPHONE, Tachyphonus.  Tangara, Oriolus, Linn. Gm. Lath.   Bec droit, longicône, convexe en dessus, fort, un peu comprimé latéralement et échancré vers le bout. — Première et septième remiges égales.   Esp. Tangara noir, mâle, Buff.   ...  Tachyphonus [ταχυφονος, celeriter cantans]." (Vieillot 1816); "Tachyphonus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 33. Type, by monotypy, "Tangara noir" Buffon = Tangara rufa Boddaert." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 288).
Var. Tachygonus.
Synon. Comarophagus, Loriotus, Pyrrota.

rufiventer / rufiventra / rufiventre / rufiventris
Mod. L. rufiventris  red-bellied  < L. rufus  ruddy, rufous; venter, ventris  belly.
● ex “Pepoazá vientre roxizo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 205, and “Pepoaza à ventre rougeâtre” of Vieillot 1819 (Neoxolmis).
● ex “Grignet” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 126 (syn. Parisoma subcaeruleum).
● ex “Traquet à Cul Roux” of Levaillant 1806, pl. 188, fig. 2 (syn. Saxicoloides fulicatus).
● ex “Gobe-mouche de l’île de Bourbon” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 572, fig. 3, and “Rufous-vented Fly-catcher” of Latham 1783 (syn. Setophaga ruticilla).
● ex “Velvet-headed Flycatcher” of Latham 1823 (Terpsiphone).