Anisognathus Somptuosus Bird
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Anisognathus Somptuosus Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Tachyphonus somptuosus TraitedOrn. livr.6 p.463
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Anisognathus
Taxonomy Code: bwmtan1
Type Locality: no locality; type from Peru, fide Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 203.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
ANISOGNATHUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Fire-bellied Mountain Tanager A. igniventris) Gr. ανισος anisos unequal < negative prefix αν- an- ; ισος isos equal; γναθος gnathos lower jaw; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVII, labelled Passerinae: Fringillinae Tanagrinae, shows the toothed upper mandible, shortened lower mandible, and stubby, somewhat bullfinch-like bill of these mountain tanagers. "Anisognathus Reichenbach, June 1, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 77. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1851, Rev. Mag. Zoll.[sic] [Paris], ser. 2, 3, p. 172, Tanagra igniventris d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 331).
Synon. Compsocoma, Poecilothraupis.
somptuosa / somptuosus
L. sumptuosus extravagant, sumptuous, costly < sumptus expense.
SUBSPECIES
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager (Blue-winged)
Latin Name: Anisognathus somptuosus [somptuosus Group]
ANISOGNATHUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Fire-bellied Mountain Tanager A. igniventris) Gr. ανισος anisos unequal < negative prefix αν- an- ; ισος isos equal; γναθος gnathos lower jaw; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVII, labelled Passerinae: Fringillinae Tanagrinae, shows the toothed upper mandible, shortened lower mandible, and stubby, somewhat bullfinch-like bill of these mountain tanagers. "Anisognathus Reichenbach, June 1, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 77. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1851, Rev. Mag. Zoll.[sic] [Paris], ser. 2, 3, p. 172, Tanagra igniventris d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 331).
Synon. Compsocoma, Poecilothraupis.
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager (Bolivian)
Latin Name: Anisognathus somptuosus flavinucha
flavinucha / flavinuchus
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; Med. L. nuchus nape < Arabic nukhā' spinal marrow.
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)
