Silver-throated Tanager
Silver-throated Tanager
Here the details of the Silver-throated Tanager named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Calliste icterocephala Compt.Rend. 32 p.76
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code: sittan1
Type Locality: Ecuador ; type from the valley of Punta Playa, south of Quito, fide P. L. Sclater, 1851, in Jardine''s Contrib. Ornith., 1, p. 53.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1851
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TANGARA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Paradise Tanager T. chilensis paradisea) Tupí name Tangara dancer, one who turns and skips, for the manakins but subsequently (Marcgrave 1648) transferred to other bright finch-like birds (cf. Brazilian Portuguese name Dançador; Wayāpi name Tängala; genus Saltator); "Genus Tangaræ (1). ... (1) Tangara, nomen Brasilianum, quibusdam hujus generic speciebus inditum. Le genre du Tangara (1). ... (1) Tangara, nom qu'on donne au Brésil à quelques especes de ce genre. ... ** 1. LE TANGARA. Tangara superne splendide nigra, inferne Beryllina; uropygio flammeo; capite superius & ad latera viridi; collo inferiore cœruleo-violaceo; remigibus majoribus exterius cœruleo-violaceis, interius nigris; minoribus & rectricibus splendide nigris. . . . .TANGARA." (Brisson 1760): ex "Tangara Brasiliensibus" of Marcgrave 1648, Jonston 1650-1653, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and "Avicula de Tatao" of Seba 1735; "Tangara Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 3, p. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Tangara Brisson = Aglaïa paradisea Swainson." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 359).
Var. Tanara.
Synon. Aglaia, Calliste, Calospiza, Chalcothraupis, Chrysothraupis, Diva, Euprepiste, Euschemon, Gyrola, Hypothlypis, Ixothraupis, Poecilostreptus, Procnopis, Stilpnia, Tanagraoides, Tanagrella, Tatao, Thraupis.
icterocephala / icterocephalus
Gr. ικτερος ikteros jaundice-yellow; -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head.
● ex “Verdin icterocephale” of Temminck 1830 (Chloropsis).
● ex “Carouge à teste jaune de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760 (Chrysomus).
● ex “Yellow-headed Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (syn. Piculus flavigula).
● "114. MOTACILLA. ... icterocephala. 25. M. grisea, subtus albida, pileo luteo, fscia ocularinigra, duabusque alaribus flavis. Ficedula canadensis icterocephala. Briss. av. 3. p. 517. t. 27. f. 2. Habitat in Canada." (Linnaeus 1766) (syn. Setophaga pensylvanica).
SUBSPECIES
Silver-throated Tanager (frantzii)
SCI Name: Tangara icterocephala frantzii
frantzii
Alexander von Frantzius (1821-1877) German physician, naturalist, anthropologist, collector in Brazil 1849-1853, resident in Costa Rica 1853-1868 (Catharus, Elaenia, Nothocercus, syn. Ortalis vetula, Pteroglossus, Semnornis, subsp. Tangara icterocephala).
Silver-throated Tanager (oresbia)
SCI Name: Tangara icterocephala oresbia
oresbia
Gr. ορεσβιος oresbios living on mountains < ορος oros, ορεος oreos mountain; βιοω bioō to live.
Silver-throated Tanager (icterocephala)
SCI Name: Tangara icterocephala icterocephala
icterocephala / icterocephalus
Gr. ικτερος ikteros jaundice-yellow; -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head.
● ex “Verdin icterocephale” of Temminck 1830 (Chloropsis).
● ex “Carouge à teste jaune de Cayenne” of Brisson 1760 (Chrysomus).
● ex “Yellow-headed Woodpecker” of Latham 1783 (syn. Piculus flavigula).
● "114. MOTACILLA. ... icterocephala. 25. M. grisea, subtus albida, pileo luteo, fscia ocularinigra, duabusque alaribus flavis. Ficedula canadensis icterocephala. Briss. av. 3. p. 517. t. 27. f. 2. Habitat in Canada." (Linnaeus 1766) (syn. Setophaga pensylvanica).
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)