Many-banded Aracari

Many-banded Aracari / Pteroglossus pluricinctus

Many-banded Aracari

Here the details of the Many-banded Aracari named bird below:

SCI Name:  Pteroglossus pluricinctus
Protonym:  Pteroglossus pluricinctus Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1835) (1835), Pt3 no.34 p.157
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Ramphastidae /
Taxonomy Code:  mabara1
Type Locality:  Brazil; restricted to the Rio Solimoes by Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., 9, 1902, p. 101.
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Publish Year:  1835
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DEFINITIONS

PTEROGLOSSUS
(Ramphastidae; Ϯ Black-necked Araçari P. aracari) Gr. πτερον pteron  feather; γλωσσα glōssa  tongue; "GENUS 4. PTEROGLOSSUS (πτερον penna  γλωσσα lingua) (Federzüngler Germ. Aracari Gall.)   Rostrum capite longius, crassum, tenue, inane, cultratum, basi margine incrassato, maxillae angulo frontali obtuso. Tomia serrata.  Nares superae, in maxillae basi. Lingua mediocris, angusta, pennacea.  Cauda gradata.  Pedes scansorii. Digiti externi internis longiores. Acropodia scutulata.   Species: Ramphastos Aracari, viridis Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Pteroglossus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 202. Type, by subsequent designation, Ramphastos aracari Linné. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1948, VI, 74).   
Synon. Aracari, Baillonius, Beauharnaisius, Grammarhynchus, Pyrosterna, Rhagoborus, Ulocomus.

pluricinctus
L. plus, pluris  many; cinctus  girdled  < cingere  to encircle.
● ex “Aracari à double ceinture” of Levaillant 1801 (Pteroglossus).