Black-and-yellow Tanager
Black-and-yellow Tanager
Here the details of the Black-and-yellow Tanager named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tachyphonus chrysomelas Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.440 pl.32
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Chrysothlypis
Taxonomy Code: baytan2
Type Locality: Cordillera del Chucu, Veraguas, Panama.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1869
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHRYSOTHLYPIS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Black-and-yellow Tanager C. chrysomelas) Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; θλυπις thlupis unknown bird, perhaps some sort of finch. In ornithology thlypis signifies either a parulid warbler or, as in this case, a thin-billed tanager; "Genus Chrysothlypis, gen. nov. Berl. Chrysothlypis gen. nov. Tanagridarum generi Hemithraupis dicto affinis, differt rostro graciliore magis producto, necnon coloribus maris insolitus (capite, uropygio corporeque inferiore aureo-flavis, dorso alis caudaque velutino-nigris). Typus: Tachyphonus chrysomelas Sclater & Salvin." (von Berlepsch 1912); "Chrysothlypis Berlepsch, Verh. 5th Intern. Orn. Kongr. Berlin, p. 1080, Feb., 1912—type, by orig. desig., Tachyphonus chrysomelas Sclater and Salvin." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 385).
Synon. Erythrothlypis.
chrysomela / chrysomelas
Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; μελας melas, μελανος melanos black.
SUBSPECIES
Black-and-yellow Tanager (titanota)
SCI Name: Chrysothlypis chrysomelas titanota
titanota
Gr. τιτανωτος titanōtos whitened < τιτανος titanos chalk, gypsum.
● "females with throat and belly suffused with white, leaving only a band across the breast yellowish, whereas females of chrysomelas are entirely bright yellow below" (Olson 1981) (subsp. Chrysothlypis chrysomelas).
Black-and-yellow Tanager (chrysomelas)
SCI Name: Chrysothlypis chrysomelas chrysomelas
chrysomela / chrysomelas
Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; μελας melas, μελανος melanos black.
Black-and-yellow Tanager (ocularis)
SCI Name: Chrysothlypis chrysomelas ocularis
ocularis
L. ocularis of the eyes, ocular < oculus eye.
● “The widespread error of transcribing this name as ocularius has been pointed out by Macdonald and Grant, 1953, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 22, pp. 197-203” (Moreau in Peters XV 1962) (Ploceus).
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)