Vulturine Parrot
Vulturine Parrot
Here the details of the Vulturine Parrot named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Psittacus vulturinus NovaActaAcad.Caes.Leop.Carol. 10 p.62
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Pyrilia
Taxonomy Code: vulpar1
Type Locality: Brazil.
Author: Kuhl
Publish Year: 1820
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
PYRILIA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Saffron-headed Parrot P. pyrilia) Specific name Psittacula pyrilia Bonaparte, 1853; "Faisons observer, à propos de cette espèce [Psittacula lineola Cassin] du Mexique et de Venezuela à la fois, qu'une autre bien plus brillante, notre pyrilia, forme maintenant avec l'amazonina, O. des Murs, notre genre Pyrilia; et que cette Pyrilia typica, Bp., n'a rien de commun avec Psittacus evops, Wagl." (Bonaparte 1856).
Var. Pyrilius.
Synon. Caica, Chapmania, Chapmaniana, Eucinetus, Gypopsitta.
pyrilia
Gr. πυρ pur, πυρος puros fire; L. ilia flanks < ile flank (cf. Med. L. pyralia torches).
vulturina / vulturinum / vulturinus
L. vulturinus like a vulture, vulturine (e.g. bald-headed) < vultur, vulturis vulture.
● ex “Caffre” of Levaillant 1796, pl. 6 (?syn. Aquila verreauxi).
● ex Vultur albicilla Linnaeus, 1766 (syn. Haliaeetus albicilla).
● ex “Philédon vulturin” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1841 (syn. Philemon inornatus).
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)