Red-billed Parrot
Red-billed Parrot
Here the details of the Red-billed Parrot named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Psittacus sordidus Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.99
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Pionus
Taxonomy Code: rebpar2
Type Locality: Mexico, ex Edwards, pi. 167, error = Venezuela, designated by Brabourne and Chubb, Bds. So. Am., 1912, p. 91.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PIONUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Blue-headed Parrot P. menstruus) Gr. πιων piōn, πιονος pionos fat, obese; "Genus XVII. Pionus*) Wagl. Maïtaca. Rostrum subintumidum; nares, lingua et pedes Psittacorum; cauda abbreviata, aequalis, alis magnis fere tecta; caput magnum; corpus breve, crassum. Sexus colore non variant. ... Species: A. Rostro subparvo, compressiusculo: α. crisso rubro: 1. P. menstruus. — 2. P. Maximiliani. — 3. P. senilis. — 4. P. purpureus. — 5. P. sordidus. ... *) Πιων obesus. — Maïtaca audiunt hae aves apud indigenas Brasiliae" (Wagler 1832); "Pionus Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 497. Type, by subsequent designation, Psittacus menstruus Linné (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 52)." (Peters 1937, III, 214).
Var. Pionias, Pione.
sordidum / sordidus
L. sordidus shabby, dirty < sordere to be dirty < sordes, sordis dirt.
● ex “Sordid Thrush” of Latham 1801 (syn. Artamus cyanopterus).
● "44. PSITTACUS. ... sordidus. 18. P. brachyurus subfuscus, gula cærulea, alis caudaque viridibus, rostro anoque rubris. Psittacus fuscus. Edw. av. 167. t. 167. Habitat in Mexico." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pionus).
SUBSPECIES
Red-billed Parrot (antelius)
SCI Name: Pionus sordidus antelius
antelius
Gr. αντηλιος antēlios facing the sun, eastern < αντι anti opposite; ἡλιος hēlios sun.
Red-billed Parrot (sordidus)
SCI Name: Pionus sordidus sordidus
sordidum / sordidus
L. sordidus shabby, dirty < sordere to be dirty < sordes, sordis dirt.
● ex “Sordid Thrush” of Latham 1801 (syn. Artamus cyanopterus).
● "44. PSITTACUS. ... sordidus. 18. P. brachyurus subfuscus, gula cærulea, alis caudaque viridibus, rostro anoque rubris. Psittacus fuscus. Edw. av. 167. t. 167. Habitat in Mexico." (Linnaeus 1758) (Pionus).
Red-billed Parrot (ponsi)
SCI Name: Pionus sordidus ponsi
ponsi
Prof. Adolfo Pons Romero (1914-1982) Venezuelan pathologist, microbiologist (subsp. Chlorospingus flavopectus, subsp. Pionus sordidus).
Red-billed Parrot (saturatus)
SCI Name: Pionus sordidus saturatus
saturatum / saturatus
L. saturatus richly coloured, darker coloured, intensely coloured < satur, satura rich, copious < satis enough.
● “In my description of this Cuckoo [Cuculus micropterus] ...I considered certain dark ash-coloured specimens to be merely the old birds of the species ...Mr Hodgson, however, thinks differently, having lately forwarded similar examples by the designation C. saturatus” (Blyth 1843) (Cuculus).
Red-billed Parrot (corallinus)
SCI Name: Pionus sordidus corallinus
corallina / corallinus
L. corallinus coral-red < Gr. κοραλλιον korallion coral, red coral.
Red-billed Parrot (mindoensis)
SCI Name: Pionus sordidus mindoensis
mindoensis
Mindo, Pichincha, western Ecuador.
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)