Lovely Cotinga

Lovely Cotinga / Cotinga amabilis

Lovely Cotinga

Here the details of the Lovely Cotinga named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cotinga amabilis
Protonym:  Cotinga amabilis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt25 no.330 p.64 pl.123
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cotingidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lovcot1
Type Locality:  Guatemala; restricted to Verapaz (J. T. Z.).
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Publish Year:  1857
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

COTINGA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-breasted Cotinga C. cotinga) Tupí name Catingá  bright forest (bird), for the colourful cotingas; "Cotinga, nom qu'on donne en Amérique à quelques especes de ce genre ... Cotinga superne splendide cœrulea, inferne purpuro-violacea; remigibus, rectricibusque nigris; oris exterioribus remigum minorum & rectricum cœruleis" (Brisson 1760): based on "Purple-breasted Blue Manakin" of Edwards 1758; "Cotinga Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 2, p. 339. Type, by tautonymy, "Cotinga" Brisson = Ampelis cotinga Linnaeus." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 297).
Synon. Hylocosmia, Orbignesius.

cotinga
Tupí name Catingá bright forest (bird), for the cotingas.
● ex “Cotinga” of Brisson 1760 (Cotinga).

amabile / amabilis
L. amabilis  amiable, lovable  < amare  to love.