Red-capped Parrot
Red-capped Parrot
Here the details of the Red-capped Parrot named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Psittacus spurius NovaActaAcad.Caes.Leop.Carol. 10 p.52
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Purpureicephalus
Taxonomy Code: recpar1
Type Locality: New Holland = Albany, southwestern Australia, by designation of Mathews, Nov. Zool., 18, 1912, p. 275.
Author: Kuhl
Publish Year: 1820
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PURPUREICEPHALUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Red-capped Parrot P. spurius) Gr. πορφυρεος porphureos purple, red; -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head (cf. specific name Psittacus purpureocephalus Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 (= syn. Purpureicephalus spurius)); "Subfam. V. PLATICERCINÆ. ... 36. PURPUREICEPHALUS, Bp. — 167. Pileatus, Vig." (Bonaparte 1854); "Purpureicephalus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 153. Type, by monotypy, Platycercus pileatus Vigors = Psittacus spurius Kuhl." (Peters 1937, III, 264).
Var. Purpureocephalus, Porphyrocephalus, Porphyreocephalus.
spurium / spurius
L. spurius illegitimate, bastard, spurious < spernere to reject.
● ex “Basterd Baltimore-Bird” of Catesby 1731, and “Icterus minor spurius” of Brisson 1760 (Icterus).
● “Juvenem credo cujusdam speciei, quem adultum videre nulli adhuc contigit” (Kuhl 1820); the juvenile and adult Red-capped Parrot are so different in plumage as to appear unrelated (Purpureicephalus).
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)