Vermilion Tanager
Vermilion Tanager
Here the details of the Vermilion Tanager named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Euchaetes coccineus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt26 no.351 p.73 pl.132 fig.1
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Calochaetes
Taxonomy Code: vertan1
Type Locality: Rio Napo, Ecuador.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1858
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CALOCHAETES
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Vermilion Tanager C. coccineus) Gr. καλος kalos beautiful; χαιτη khaitē hair (cf. genus Euchaetes P. Sclater, 1858, tanager); "The generic term "Euchætes," adopted by me for a Tanager (Euchætes coccineus), P. Z. S. 1858, p.73, from J. Verreaux's MS, has, I find, been previously used in entomology by Dejean (Cat. Coléopt. ed. 2, 1834) and by Harris (Cat. Insects Massachusetts, 1841). I therefore propose to change it to Calochætes. There is only one known species of this genus, C. coccineus, from Ecuador" (P. Sclater 1879); "Calochaetes Sclater, Ibis, (4), 3, p. 388, 1879—new name for Euchaetes Sclater, preoccupied." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 270).
Var. Callochaetes.
Synon. Euchaetes.
coccineum / coccineus
L. coccineus scarlet-coloured < coccum scarlet dye < Gr. κοκκος kokkos scarlet berry.
● ex “Grimpereau à dos rouge de la Chine” of Sonnerat 1782 (syn. Dicaeum cruentatum).
● ex “Scarlet Finch” of Latham 1783 (Loxops).
● ex “Perruche Phigi” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (syn. Phigys solitarius).
● ex “Cardinal” of Brisson 1760, and “Tangara du Méxique”or “Cardinal”of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 127, fig. 1 (syn. Ramphocelus bresilius).
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)