Lettered Aracari

Lettered Aracari / Pteroglossus inscriptus

Lettered Aracari

Here the details of the Lettered Aracari named bird below:

SCI Name:  Pteroglossus inscriptus
Protonym:  Pteroglossus inscriptus Zool.Ill. 2 pl.90,text
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Ramphastidae /
Taxonomy Code:  letara1
Type Locality:  Interior of Guiana; error =: Para, by designation of Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., 17, 1910, p. 399.
Author:  
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.