Eclectus Parrot
Eclectus Parrot
Here the details of the Eclectus Parrot named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Psittacus roratus Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.77
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Eclectus
Taxonomy Code: eclpar
Type Locality: Amboina.
Author: Statius Muller
Publish Year: 1776
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
ECLECTUS
(Psittacidae; † Moluccan Eclectus E. roratus) Gr. εκλεκτος eklektos selected, chosen < εκλεκτοω eklektoō to be separated; the male Eclectus Parrots have shining green plumage, with red flanks and blue in the wings; the females are markedly different, with shining red and purple plumage; "Eclectus *) Wagl., Edellori ... plumae capitis collique discretae, subsericeae ... *) Eκλεκτος electus" (Wagler 1832); "Eclectus Wagler, 1832, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl. 1: 495. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840. List Gen. Birds: 52), Psittacus grandis Gmelin = Psittacus roratus (P. L. S. Müller)." (Beehler and Pratt, 2016, Birds New Guinea, p. 264).
Var. Electus.
Synon. Larius, Polychlorus.
roratus
L. roratus bedewed < rorare to bedew < ros, roris dew; the “Tau Kakatu” dew cockatoo, of Statius Müller 1776, from the sleek, glistening plumage of the Eclectus Parrot; ex “Lori de la Nouvelle Guinée” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 683 (Eclectus).
SUBSPECIES
Eclectus Parrot (Moluccan)
SCI Name: Eclectus roratus roratus/vosmaeri
ECLECTUS
(Psittacidae; † Moluccan Eclectus E. roratus) Gr. εκλεκτος eklektos selected, chosen < εκλεκτοω eklektoō to be separated; the male Eclectus Parrots have shining green plumage, with red flanks and blue in the wings; the females are markedly different, with shining red and purple plumage; "Eclectus *) Wagl., Edellori ... plumae capitis collique discretae, subsericeae ... *) Eκλεκτος electus" (Wagler 1832); "Eclectus Wagler, 1832, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl. 1: 495. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840. List Gen. Birds: 52), Psittacus grandis Gmelin = Psittacus roratus (P. L. S. Müller)." (Beehler and Pratt, 2016, Birds New Guinea, p. 264).
Var. Electus.
Synon. Larius, Polychlorus.
Eclectus Parrot (Sumba)
SCI Name: Eclectus roratus cornelia
cornelia
● Cornelia Schlegel née Buddingh’ (1815-1864) Dutch first wife of German ornithologist Hermann Schlegel (subsp. Eclectus roratus).
● Eponym (Salvadori 1878, Atti Reale Accad. Sci. Torino, 13, 319) (OD per Björn Bergenholtz); probably after a relative of Count Salvadori, or an inference to the Cornelii, a patrician family of ancient Rome whose members included Cornelia, the first wife of Julius Caesar, and the virtuous Cornelia Africana Minor, second daughter of the general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (subsp. Leptocoma aspasia).
Eclectus Parrot (Tanimbar)
SCI Name: Eclectus roratus riedeli
riedeli / riedelii
Dr Johan Gerard Friedrich Riedel (1832-1911) Dutch colonial administrator in the East Indies 1853-1883, naturalist (subsp. Eclectus roratus, Ficedula, syn. Ixobrychus eurhythmus, syn. Lalage sueurii, syn. Pachycephala monacha arctitorquis, subsp. Phyllergates cucullatus, Tanysiptera).
Eclectus Parrot (Papuan)
SCI Name: Eclectus roratus [polychloros Group]
ECLECTUS
(Psittacidae; † Moluccan Eclectus E. roratus) Gr. εκλεκτος eklektos selected, chosen < εκλεκτοω eklektoō to be separated; the male Eclectus Parrots have shining green plumage, with red flanks and blue in the wings; the females are markedly different, with shining red and purple plumage; "Eclectus *) Wagl., Edellori ... plumae capitis collique discretae, subsericeae ... *) Eκλεκτος electus" (Wagler 1832); "Eclectus Wagler, 1832, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl. 1: 495. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840. List Gen. Birds: 52), Psittacus grandis Gmelin = Psittacus roratus (P. L. S. Müller)." (Beehler and Pratt, 2016, Birds New Guinea, p. 264).
Var. Electus.
Synon. Larius, Polychlorus.
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)