Smooth-billed Ani

Here the details of the Smooth-billed Ani named bird below:

SCI Name:  Crotophaga ani
Protonym:  Crotophaga Ani Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.105
Taxonomy:  Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Crotophaga
Taxonomy Code:  smbani
Type Locality:  America, Africa = Jamaica.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CROTOPHAGA
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Smooth-billed Ani C. ani) Gr. κροτων krotōn, κροτωνος krotōnos  tick; -φαγος -phagos  -eating  < φαγειν phagein  to eat; “They live chiefly upon ticks and other small vermin” (P. Browne 1769); “Crotophagus of Linnaeus and Brisson ...  because this genus feeds on ticks ...  I retain the Brasilian name Ani” (Pennant 1773) (pace Payne in del Hoyo et al. (eds.) 1998, “Anis often have a strong smell  ... Their generic name Crotophaga means eater of “croton oil”, which is the oil of the East Indian croton tree (Croton tiglium) and is a foul-smelling medicinal purgative”); "47. CROTOPHAGA.  Rostrum compressum, semiovatum, arcuatum, sulco utrinque exaratum; Mandibula superiore margine utrinque angulata.  Nares perviæ." (Linnaeus 1758); "Crotophaga Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 105. Type, by monotypy, Crotophaga ani Linné." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 57). This is the eighth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy. Linnaeus's Crotophaga comprised only one species.
Var. Crotophagus, Cratophaga.

crotophaga / crotophagus
Gr. κροτων krotōn, κροτωνος krotōnos  tick; -φαγος -phagos  -eating  < φαγειν phagein  to eat.
● ex “Chimachima” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 6 (syn. Milvago chimachima).

ani
Tupí name Anim social (bird), for the ani (cf. Wayāpi name Anu; Güaraní name Anó ("NÚM. CCLXIII.  DEL ANNÓ.  No creo pase de los 28 grados para el sur; pero abunda lo que el anterior en el Paraguay, donde le llaman Annó por excelencia, y porque su voz fuerte y desagradable suena á algunos annó, y á mi oooí, ó aaaí." (de Azara 1805))); "47. CROTOPHAGA.  ...  Ani.  1. CROTOPHAGA.  Crotophagus ater, rostro breviore compresso arcuato-cultrato. Brown. jam. 474.  Monedula tota nigra major garrula, mandibula superiore arcuata. Sloan. jam. 2. p. 298. t. 256. f. 1. Catesb. car. 3. p. 3. t. 3.  Ani. Marcgr. bras. 193. Will. orn. 120. Raj. av. 35. n. 10. & 185. n. 29.  Habitat in America, Africa; victitans gryllis." (Linnaeus 1758) (Crotophaga).