Turquoise Dacnis

Turquoise Dacnis / Dacnis hartlaubi

Turquoise Dacnis

Here the details of the Turquoise Dacnis named bird below:

SCI Name:  Dacnis hartlaubi
Protonym:  Dacnis hartlaubi Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1854) (1854), Pt22 no.275 p.251
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  turdac1
Type Locality:  Nova Grenada [= Colombia]; La Cumbre, Dept. Valle, suggested as type locality by Carriker, 1955, Noved. Colombianas, no. 2, p. 61.
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Publish Year:  1855
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DEFINITIONS

DACNIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Blue Dacnis D. cayana) Gr. δακνις daknis  type of bird from Egypt, otherwise unidentified, mentioned by Hesychius and Pompeius Festus; "LES PIT-PITS. Buff. (DACNIS. Cuv.)  Représentent en petit les carouges [Icterus] par leur bec conique et aigu. Ils les lient avec les figuiers (1).   ...   (1) Motacilla Cayana, Gm. enl. 669." (Cuvier 1817); "Dacnis Cuvier, 1816, Règne Animal, 1 ("1817"), p. 395. Type, by virtual monotypy, Motacilla cayana Linnaeus." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 387).
Var. Dacuis, Dachnis.   
Synon. Cyanodacnis, Eudacnis, Hemidacnis, Mellisuga, Polidacnis, Pseudodacnis.

hartlaubi
Carl Johann Gustav Hartlaub (1814-1900) German ornithologist, collector (syn. Calidris falcinellusCercotrichas, syn. Corythornis cristatus cyanostigma, syn. Coua coquereli, DacnisEuplectes, syn. Euplectes gierowii ansorgei, syn. Hemicircus concretus, Horizocerus, syn. Lamprotornis chalybaeus, syn. Loriculus philippensis apicalis, syn. Neafrapus cassiniOtus, Pternistis, Tauraco).