Violet Cuckoo
Violet Cuckoo
Here the details of the Violet Cuckoo named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cuculus xanthorhynchus Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.179
Taxonomy: Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Chrysococcyx
Taxonomy Code: viocuc1
Type Locality: Java.
Author: Horsfield
Publish Year: 1821
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHRYSOCOCCYX
(Cuculidae; † African Emerald Cuckoo C. cupreus) Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; κοκκυξ kokkux, κοκκυγος kokkugos cuckoo; "XXVIII. Fam. Cuculidae ... Chrysococcyx: Cuculus cupreus Lath. u. a." (Boie 1826); "Chrysococcyx Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 977. Type, by monotypy, Cuculus cupreus Latham = Cuculus cupreus Shaw." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 29).
Synon. Adamatornis, Adetococcyx, Lamprococcyx, Lampromorpha, Metallococcyx.
xanthorhynchus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill.
Xanthorhynchus
(syn. Tockus Ϯ Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill T. leucomelas) Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill; "Xanthorhynchus gen. nov., type Buceros leucomelas Licht.: bill very long, conspicuously and evenly arching, normally not toothed, though sometimes slightly chipped; length of the culmen about two and a half times the height at the nostrils; casque forming a high ridge, evenly arching with the bill, from which it is marked off by a shallow groove extending to a point not far from the tip; wing and tail of about the same length; secondaries as long as the primaries." (A. Roberts 1922).
SUBSPECIES
Violet Cuckoo (xanthorhynchus)
SCI Name: Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus xanthorhynchus
xanthorhynchus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill.
Violet Cuckoo (amethystinus)
SCI Name: Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus amethystinus
amethystina / amethystinus
L. amethystinus amethyst-coloured, amethystine < amethystus amethyst < Gr. αμεθυστος amethustos amethyst.
● ex “Petit oiseau-mouche à queue fourchue de Cayenne”” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 672, fig. 1, and “Améthiste” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Calliphlox).
● ex “Petit oiseau-mouche à queue fourchue de Cayenne”” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 672, fig. 1, “Améthiste” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Amethystine Hummingbird” of Latham 1782 (syn. Calliphlox amethystina).
● ex “Sucrier Velours” of Levaillant 1810, pl. 294 (Chalcomitra).
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)