Blue-winged Goose

Blue-winged Goose / Cyanochen cyanoptera

Blue-winged Goose

Here the details of the Blue-winged Goose named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cyanochen cyanoptera
Protonym:  Bernicla cyanoptera Systemat.Uebers.Vog.N.-O.-Afr. p.129 pl.47
Taxonomy:  Anseriformes / Anatidae /
Taxonomy Code:  buwgoo1
Type Locality:  Shoa.
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Publish Year:  1845
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DEFINITIONS

CYANOCHEN
(Anatidae; Ϯ Blue-winged Goose C. cyanopterus) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; χην khēn, χηνος khēnos  goose; "Sämmtliche Deckfedern der Flügel lavendelblau" (Rüppell 1845); "C. BERNICLEÆ.  ...  10. Cyanochen, Hartl.  26. cyanoptera, Rüpp." (Bonaparte 1856); "Cyanochen Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, 1856, p. 648. Type, by monotypy, Bernicla cyanoptera Rüppell." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 152).

cyanoptera
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros dark-winged, blue-winged < κυανος kuanos dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
● ex “Pato alas azules” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 434 (Spatula).
● ex “Lindo saihobí” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 92 (Tangara).