Maroon-fronted Parrot

Maroon-fronted Parrot / Rhynchopsitta terrisi

Maroon-fronted Parrot

Here the details of the Maroon-fronted Parrot named bird below:

SCI Name:  Rhynchopsitta terrisi
Protonym:  Rhynchopsitta terrisi Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 60 p.27
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae /
Taxonomy Code:  mafpar1
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Publish Year:  1947
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DEFINITIONS

RHYNCHOPSITTA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Thick-billed Parrot R. pachyrhynchus) Gr. ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; Mod. L. psitta  parrot  < Gr. ψιττακη psittakē  parrot; "Subfam. I. MACROCERCINÆ.   ...   3. RHYNCHOPSITTA, Bp. — 13. Pachyrhyncha, Sw." (Bonaparte 1854); "Rhynchopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 149. Type, by monotypy, Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson." (Peters 1937, III, 192).
Var. Rhyncopsitta, Rhynchopsittacus.

terrisi
Dr Terris Moore (1908-1993) US financial administrator, explorer, mountaineer, son of ornithologist Robert T. Moore (Rhynchopsitta).