Lettered Aracari
Lettered Aracari
Here the details of the Lettered Aracari named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pteroglossus inscriptus Zool.Ill. 2 pl.90,text
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Ramphastidae / Pteroglossus
Taxonomy Code: letara1
Type Locality: Interior of Guiana; error =: Para, by designation of Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., 17, 1910, p. 399.
Author: Swainson
Publish Year: 1822
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
PTEROGLOSSUS
(Ramphastidae; Ϯ Black-necked Araçari P. aracari) Gr. πτερον pteron feather; γλωσσα glōssa tongue; "GENUS 4. PTEROGLOSSUS (πτερον penna γλωσσα lingua) (Federzüngler Germ. Aracari Gall.) Rostrum capite longius, crassum, tenue, inane, cultratum, basi margine incrassato, maxillae angulo frontali obtuso. Tomia serrata. Nares superae, in maxillae basi. Lingua mediocris, angusta, pennacea. Cauda gradata. Pedes scansorii. Digiti externi internis longiores. Acropodia scutulata. Species: Ramphastos Aracari, viridis Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Pteroglossus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 202. Type, by subsequent designation, Ramphastos aracari Linné. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1948, VI, 74).
Synon. Aracari, Baillonius, Beauharnaisius, Grammarhynchus, Pyrosterna, Rhagoborus, Ulocomus.
inscripta / inscriptus
L. inscriptus marked < inscribere to write on, to mark.
SUBSPECIES
Lettered Aracari (Humboldt's)
SCI Name: Pteroglossus inscriptus humboldti
humboldti / humboldtii
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (1769-1859) Prussian scientist, explorer (Amazilia, subsp. Corydospiza alaudina, subsp. Pternistis afer, Pteroglossus, Spheniscus).
Lettered Aracari (Lettered)
SCI Name: Pteroglossus inscriptus inscriptus
inscripta / inscriptus
L. inscriptus marked < inscribere to write on, to mark.
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)