Yellow Grosbeak
Yellow Grosbeak
Here the details of the Yellow Grosbeak named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Coccothraustes chrysopeplus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 no.15 p.4
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Pheucticus
Taxonomy Code: yelgro
Type Locality: Mexico ; restricted to San Bias, Nayarit, by van Rossem, 1934, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77, p. 480.
Author: Vigors
Publish Year: 1832
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PHEUCTICUS
(Cardinalidae; Ϯ Black-backed Grosbeak P. aureoventris) Gr. φευκτικος pheuktikos shy, inclined to avoid < φευγω pheugō to flee. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVIII, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae Coccothraustinae, shows a variety of heavy-billed finches, but gives no clue as to the reasoning behind this generic tag; doubtless a clue will be found in earlier species accounts. "Pheucticus Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 78. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 75), Pitylus aureoventris." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 217).
Var. Pheuticus.
Synon. Habia, Hedymeles, Zamelodia.
chrysopeplus
Gr. χρυσοπεπλος khrusopeplos golden-robed < χρυσος khrusos gold; πεπλος peplos robe.
SUBSPECIES
Yellow Grosbeak (Northern)
SCI Name: Pheucticus chrysopeplus chrysopeplus/dilutus
PHEUCTICUS
(Cardinalidae; Ϯ Black-backed Grosbeak P. aureoventris) Gr. φευκτικος pheuktikos shy, inclined to avoid < φευγω pheugō to flee. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVIII, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae Coccothraustinae, shows a variety of heavy-billed finches, but gives no clue as to the reasoning behind this generic tag; doubtless a clue will be found in earlier species accounts. "Pheucticus Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 78. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 75), Pitylus aureoventris." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 217).
Var. Pheuticus.
Synon. Habia, Hedymeles, Zamelodia.
Yellow Grosbeak (Guatemalan)
SCI Name: Pheucticus chrysopeplus aurantiacus
aurantiaca / aurantiacus
Mod. L. aurantiacus orange-coloured < Late Med. L. aurantia orange.
● ex “Manakin orangé” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Pipra aureola).
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)