Blue-headed Racquet-tail
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Blue-headed Racquet-tail
Here the details of the Blue-headed Racquet-tail named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Prioniturus platenae Braunschw.Anz. no.37 p.335
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Prioniturus
Taxonomy Code: bhrtai1
Type Locality: Palawan.
Author: Blasius, W
Publish Year: 1888
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
PRIONITURUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Golden-mantled Racquet-tail P. platurus) Genus Prionites Illiger, 1811, motmot; Gr. ουρα oura tail; "Genus V. Prioniturus ***) Wagl. Momotsittich. Character generis praecedentis [Nymphicus]; rostrum validum; rectrices duae intermediae ante apicem nudae. Species Asiae incola. Vitae ratio ignota. Species: 1. P. platurus. ... ***) Sic dictus ob caudae structuram ut in Prionite Momoto. Prionites (avis) et ουρα cauda." (Wagler 1832); "Prioniturus Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 490. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus platurus Vieillot." (Peters 1937, III, 236).
Synon. Discosurus, Urodiscus.
platenae / plateni
● Dr Carl Constantin Platen (1843-1899) German physician based at Amoy, China, collector in the East Indies (Aramidopsis, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, Dasycrotapha, syn. Ninox mindorensis, subsp. Pachycephala cinerea, Prionochilus).
● Dr Margarete Platen née Geisler (fl. 1894) wife of German physician Dr Carl C. Platen (syn. Ceyx melanurus mindanensis, Ficedula, Gallicolumba, Prioniturus, Thapsinillas).
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)
