Cone-billed Tanager
Cone-billed Tanager
Here the details of the Cone-billed Tanager named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Rhynchothraupis mesoleuca Bull.Br.Orn.Club 59 p.102
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Conothraupis
Taxonomy Code: cobtan2
Type Locality: Juruena, north-east of Cuyaba, Matto Grosso [, Central Brazil].
Author: Berlioz
Publish Year: 1939
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
CONOTHRAUPIS
(Thraupidae; † Black-and-white Tanager C. speculigera) Gr. κωνος kōnos cone; θραυπις thraupis unknown small bird, perhaps some sort of finch. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager; "Conothraupis, a new genus of Tanagers. — I have been kindly permitted to acquire in exchange from the Warsaw Museum a skin of Schistochlamys speculigera, Gould (P. Z. S. 1855, p. 68), one of the few Tanagers wanting in my series. I am now convinced that the genus Schistochlamys (sive Diucopis) is not the proper position for this curious bird, which is remarkable for its straight gonys and but very slight incurved culmen. I propose to remove it to near Arremon, where I think it will fit in better, under the new generic term Conothraupis (κωνος, conus, and θραυπις, tanagra); so that it will stand as Conothraupis speculigera." (P. Sclater 1880); "CONOTHRAUPIS, Scl. MS.1 Rostrum subconicum, tomiis medio profunde emarginatis. Alæ breves, subrotundatæ, remigum tertio et quarto omnium longissimis, secundo vix breviore. Cauda apice rotundata. Pedes debiles. Habitus generalis Buarremonis. *16. CONOTHRAUPIS SPECULIGERA. ... 1Vide Ibis, 1880, p. 252." (Taczanowski 1880); "Conothraupis P. L. Sclater, 1880, Ibis, p. 252. Type, by monotypy, Schistochlamys speculigera." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 250).
Synon. Rhynchothraupis.
mesoleuca / mesoleucus
Gr. μεσολευκος mesoleukos middling-white, streaked white, black gemstone with a white stripe < μεσος mesos half, middle; λευκος leukos white.
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)