Blue-throated Piping-Guan

Blue-throated Piping-Guan / Pipile cumanensis

Blue-throated Piping-Guan

Here the details of the Blue-throated Piping-Guan named bird below:

SCI Name:  Pipile cumanensis
Protonym:  Crax cumanensis Beytr.Gesch.Vogel p.25 pl.10
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Cracidae /
Taxonomy Code:  btpgua1
Type Locality:  Orinoco River region near Cumana.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1784
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PIPILE
(Cracidae; Ϯ Trinidad Piping Guan P. pipile) Specific name Crax pipile von Jacquin, 1784; "I. PENELOPEÆ.  ...  20. Pipile, Bp.   48. leucolophos, Merr. (pipile, Gm.  jacutinga, Spix.)   49. cumanensis, Gm.   50. nigrifrons, Temm.   51. argyrotis, Bp." (Bonaparte 1856); "Pipile Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 877. Type, by tautonymy, Penelope leucolophos Merrem = Crax pipile Jacquin." (Peters 1934, II, 22). Recent work indicates that this genus should be included in Aburria.
Synon. Cumana.

pipile
German Pipen (modern Pfeifer)  piper (cf. L. pipilare  to chirp  < pipare  to chirp); "Der Pipile.  Tab. II.  CRAX (Pipile)  ...  Sein Stimme besteht in einem sansten Pipen, woher er auch obbesagten Nahmen bey den Amerikanern erhalten hat." (von Jacquin 1784) (Pipile).

cumanensis
● Cumaná, Sucre, north-eastern Venezuela (subsp. Grallaricula nana, Pipile, subsp. Thryophilus rufalbus, subsp. Turdus serranus, subsp. Zimmerius chrysops).
● Bay of Cuman (= Bahia do Cuma), Maranhão, Brazil (subsp. Diopsittaca nobilis).
● Erroneous TL Cumaná, Venezuela (= Trinidad) (syn. Pipile pipile).

SUBSPECIES

Blue-throated Piping-Guan (Blue-throated)
SCI Name: Pipile cumanensis cumanensis
cumanensis
● Cumaná, Sucre, north-eastern Venezuela (subsp. Grallaricula nana, Pipile, subsp. Thryophilus rufalbus, subsp. Turdus serranus, subsp. Zimmerius chrysops).
● Bay of Cuman (= Bahia do Cuma), Maranhão, Brazil (subsp. Diopsittaca nobilis).
● Erroneous TL Cumaná, Venezuela (= Trinidad) (syn. Pipile pipile).

Blue-throated Piping-Guan (White-throated)
SCI Name: Pipile cumanensis grayi
grayi / grayii
● John Edward Gray (1800-1875) English ornithologist (AmaziliaAmmomanopsis, Ardeola, Zosterops).
George Robert Gray (1808-1872) English ornithologist, first Assistant Keeper at BMNH 1869 (subsp. Anthus correndera, syn. Anthus novaeseelandiae, subsp. Argusianus argus, syn. Chaetops pycnopygius, syn. Chalcopsitta cardinalis, Chenorhamphus, syn. Cisticola exilis rusticus, subsp. Crax fasciolataEdolisoma, subsp. Leptocoma aspasia, Pipile, syn. Rallina tricolor, syn. Todiramphus chloris juliae, syn. Todiramphus chloris sordidusTurdus).
● John Edward Gray (1800-1875) and his brother George Robert Gray (1808-1872) English ornithologists (syn. Campephilus pollens).