Gray-headed Tanager
Gray-headed Tanager
Here the details of the Gray-headed Tanager named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tanagra penicillata Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.36 pl.49 fig.1
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Eucometis
Taxonomy Code: grhtan1
Type Locality: no locality ; Fonteboa, Amazonas [= Fonte Boa, Rio Solimoes, Brazil] suggested by Berlepsch, 1908, Novit. Zool., 15, p. 117.
Author: von Spix
Publish Year: 1825
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EUCOMETIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Grey-headed Tanager E. penicillata) Gr. ευκομης eukomēs lovely-haired < ευ eu fine, good; κομη komē hair; "Genus XVIII. EUCOMETIS. Comarophagus, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxii. p. 81 (nec Boié). Rostrum Tachyphoni sed commissura vix sinuata: alæ elongatæ, remigibus tertia, quarta et quinta longissimis: cauda elongata, rotundata: ptilosis olivacea: sexus similes. 1. EUCOMETIS PENICILLATA. Tanagra penicillata, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 36. pl. 49. fig. 1. ... This seems to be the species of this curious form which has the crest most developed, and from its locality the most likely to be what Spix intended for his Tanagra penicillata. ... 2. EUCOMETIS ALBICOLLIS. Pyranga albicollis, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. An. in Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 33 ... 3. EUCOMETIS CRISTATA. Pipilopsis cristata, DuBus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xxxii. p. 154 (1855)." (P. Sclater 1856); "Eucometis P. Sclater, 1856, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, XXIV, p. 117. New name for Comarophagus Bonaparte, 1851, preoccupied by Comarophagus Boie, 1826." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Eucometes, Eucometus.
Synon. Comarophagus.
penicillata / penicillatus
Mod. L. penicillatus with brush-like tufts < L. penicillus brush < dim. peniculus brush < penis tail.
● ex “Yellow-eared Bulbul” of Jerdon 1844 (Pycnonotus).
SUBSPECIES
Gray-headed Tanager (Gray-crested)
SCI Name: Eucometis penicillata [spodocephalus Group]
EUCOMETIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Grey-headed Tanager E. penicillata) Gr. ευκομης eukomēs lovely-haired < ευ eu fine, good; κομη komē hair; "Genus XVIII. EUCOMETIS. Comarophagus, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxii. p. 81 (nec Boié). Rostrum Tachyphoni sed commissura vix sinuata: alæ elongatæ, remigibus tertia, quarta et quinta longissimis: cauda elongata, rotundata: ptilosis olivacea: sexus similes. 1. EUCOMETIS PENICILLATA. Tanagra penicillata, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 36. pl. 49. fig. 1. ... This seems to be the species of this curious form which has the crest most developed, and from its locality the most likely to be what Spix intended for his Tanagra penicillata. ... 2. EUCOMETIS ALBICOLLIS. Pyranga albicollis, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. An. in Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 33 ... 3. EUCOMETIS CRISTATA. Pipilopsis cristata, DuBus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xxxii. p. 154 (1855)." (P. Sclater 1856); "Eucometis P. Sclater, 1856, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, XXIV, p. 117. New name for Comarophagus Bonaparte, 1851, preoccupied by Comarophagus Boie, 1826." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Eucometes, Eucometus.
Synon. Comarophagus.
Gray-headed Tanager (Gray-headed)
SCI Name: Eucometis penicillata [penicillata Group]
EUCOMETIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Grey-headed Tanager E. penicillata) Gr. ευκομης eukomēs lovely-haired < ευ eu fine, good; κομη komē hair; "Genus XVIII. EUCOMETIS. Comarophagus, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxii. p. 81 (nec Boié). Rostrum Tachyphoni sed commissura vix sinuata: alæ elongatæ, remigibus tertia, quarta et quinta longissimis: cauda elongata, rotundata: ptilosis olivacea: sexus similes. 1. EUCOMETIS PENICILLATA. Tanagra penicillata, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 36. pl. 49. fig. 1. ... This seems to be the species of this curious form which has the crest most developed, and from its locality the most likely to be what Spix intended for his Tanagra penicillata. ... 2. EUCOMETIS ALBICOLLIS. Pyranga albicollis, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. An. in Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 33 ... 3. EUCOMETIS CRISTATA. Pipilopsis cristata, DuBus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xxxii. p. 154 (1855)." (P. Sclater 1856); "Eucometis P. Sclater, 1856, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, XXIV, p. 117. New name for Comarophagus Bonaparte, 1851, preoccupied by Comarophagus Boie, 1826." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Eucometes, Eucometus.
Synon. Comarophagus.
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)