Ara Severus Bird
Ara Severus Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Psittacus severus Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.97
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Ara
Taxonomy Code: chfmac1
Type Locality: Indies, error, Amazon River substituted by Hellmayr, antea, p. 578.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ARA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Scarlet Macaw A. macao) Tupí onomatopoeia Ará for the macaws, but also used in combination to indicate bird (e.g. Araçarí, Araponga). Arára is a general name for parrots. "PREMIER GENRE. ARA. (Ara.) Le bec gros et convexe; la mandibule supérieure pointue, recourbée sur l'inférieure, et mobile; la langue épaisse, charnue et arrondie à son extrémité; une place dénuée de plumes sur chaque joue. ESPÈCES. 1. L'ara rouge. Ara Macao. XI, 250. 2. L'ara bleu. Ara ararauna. XI, 272. 3. L'ara verd. Ara severus. XI, 274. 4. L'ara noir. Ara ater. XI, 284. 5. Le petit ara rouge. Ara aracanga. XI, 259. 6. La perriche ara. Ara makawuanna. XI, 384." (de Lacépède 1799); "Ara Lacépède, Tableaux Ois., 1799, p. 1. Type, by subsequent designation, Psittacus macao Linné. (Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 50, pt. 7, 1916, p. 119.)" (Peters, 1937, III, p. 180).
Synon. Aracanga, Araclanga, Ararauna, Hemipsittacus, Macao, Macrocercus, Maracanus, Paracus.
severus
L. severus grim, stern, grave, austere.
● Based on "Papegoja trumpen," surly parrot, of Linnaeus 1754; "44. PSITTACUS. ... severus. 5. P. macrourus viridis, genis nudis, remigibus rectricibusque cæruleis subtus purpurascentibus. Mus. Ad. Fr. I. p. 13. Habitat in Indiis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Ara).
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)