Tangara Schrankii Bird

English Name:  Green-and-gold Tanager
Latin Name:  Tangara schrankii
Protonym:  Tanagra schrankii Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.38 pl.51 fig.1,2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code:  gagtan2
Type Locality:  no locality; Tabatinga, Rio Solimoes, Brasil, suggested by Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 93.
Author:  von Spix
Publish Year:  1825
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TANGARA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Paradise Tanager T. chilensis paradisea) Tupí name Tangara  dancer, one who turns and skips, for the manakins but subsequently (Marcgrave 1648) transferred to other bright finch-like birds (cf. Brazilian Portuguese name Dançador; Wayāpi name Tängala; genus Saltator); "Genus Tangaræ (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nomen Brasilianum, quibusdam hujus generic speciebus inditum.    Le genre du Tangara (1).  ...  (1) Tangara, nom qu'on donne au Brésil à quelques especes de ce genre.  ...  ** 1. LE TANGARA.  Tangara superne splendide nigra, inferne Beryllina; uropygio flammeo; capite superius & ad latera viridi; collo inferiore cœruleo-violaceo; remigibus majoribus exterius cœruleo-violaceis, interius nigris; minoribus & rectricibus splendide nigris. . . . .TANGARA." (Brisson 1760): ex "Tangara Brasiliensibus" of Marcgrave 1648, Jonston 1650-1653, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and "Avicula de Tatao" of Seba 1735; "Tangara Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 3, p. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Tangara Brisson = Aglaïa paradisea Swainson." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 359).   
Var. Tanara.   
Synon. Aglaia, Calliste, Calospiza, Chalcothraupis, Chrysothraupis, Diva, Euprepiste, Euschemon, Gyrola, Hypothlypis, Ixothraupis, Poecilostreptus, Procnopis, Stilpnia, Tanagraoides, Tanagrella, Tatao, Thraupis.

schrankii
Prof. Franz von Paula Schrank (1747-1835) German theologian, botanist, entomologist, collector (Tangara).

SUBSPECIES

Green-and-gold Tanager (schrankii)
Latin Name: Tangara schrankii schrankii
schrankii
Prof. Franz von Paula Schrank (1747-1835) German theologian, botanist, entomologist, collector (Tangara).

Green-and-gold Tanager (venezuelana)
Latin Name: Tangara schrankii venezuelana
venezuelae / venezuelana / venezuelanus / venezuelense / venezuelensis
Venezuela (Italian Venezuola, a diminutive of Venezia Venice, alluding to native houses on stilts in the waters of Lake Maracaibo).