Purple-breasted Cotinga

Purple-breasted Cotinga / Cotinga cotinga

Purple-breasted Cotinga

Here the details of the Purple-breasted Cotinga named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cotinga cotinga
Protonym:  [Ampelis] Cotinga Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.298
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cotingidae /
Taxonomy Code:  pubcot1
Type Locality:  Brazil; restricted to vicinity of Belem, Para, by Pinto, 1944, Cat. Aves Brasil (Publ. Dept. Zool., Sao Paulo), pt. 2, p. 9.
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Publish Year:  1766
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DEFINITIONS

COTINGA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-breasted Cotinga C. cotinga) Tupí name Catingá  bright forest (bird), for the colourful cotingas; "Cotinga, nom qu'on donne en Amérique à quelques especes de ce genre ... Cotinga superne splendide cœrulea, inferne purpuro-violacea; remigibus, rectricibusque nigris; oris exterioribus remigum minorum & rectricum cœruleis" (Brisson 1760): based on "Purple-breasted Blue Manakin" of Edwards 1758; "Cotinga Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 2, p. 339. Type, by tautonymy, "Cotinga" Brisson = Ampelis cotinga Linnaeus." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 297).
Synon. Hylocosmia, Orbignesius.

cotinga
Tupí name Catingá bright forest (bird), for the cotingas.
● ex “Cotinga” of Brisson 1760 (Cotinga).

COTINGA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-breasted Cotinga C. cotinga) Tupí name Catingá  bright forest (bird), for the colourful cotingas; "Cotinga, nom qu'on donne en Amérique à quelques especes de ce genre ... Cotinga superne splendide cœrulea, inferne purpuro-violacea; remigibus, rectricibusque nigris; oris exterioribus remigum minorum & rectricum cœruleis" (Brisson 1760): based on "Purple-breasted Blue Manakin" of Edwards 1758; "Cotinga Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 2, p. 339. Type, by tautonymy, "Cotinga" Brisson = Ampelis cotinga Linnaeus." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 297).
Synon. Hylocosmia, Orbignesius.

cotinga
Tupí name Catingá bright forest (bird), for the cotingas.
● ex “Cotinga” of Brisson 1760 (Cotinga).