Purple-throated Cotinga

Purple-throated Cotinga / Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema

Purple-throated Cotinga

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

SCI Name:  Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema
Protonym:  Cotinga porphyrolaema Rev.Mag.Zool.(2), 4 p.226
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Cotingidae /
Taxonomy Code:  putcot1
Type Locality:  Sarayacu, Rio Ucayali, Peru.
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Publish Year:  1852
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DEFINITIONS

PORPHYROLAEMA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-throated Cotinga P. porphyrolaema) Specific name Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville & P. Sclater, 1852; "a. Cotingeæ.   ...   53. PORPHYROLÆMA, Bp. — 116. phygas, Bp. (Cotinga porphyrolæma, Sclater.)" (Bonaparte 1854); "Porphyrolaema Bonaparte, 1854, Ateneo Italiano, 2 (11), p. 315 (= Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 5). Type, by monotypy, Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville and Sclater." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 296).

porphyrolaema
Gr. πορφυρα porphura purple; λαιμος laimos throat.

PORPHYROLAEMA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-throated Cotinga P. porphyrolaema) Specific name Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville & P. Sclater, 1852; "a. Cotingeæ.   ...   53. PORPHYROLÆMA, Bp. — 116. phygas, Bp. (Cotinga porphyrolæma, Sclater.)" (Bonaparte 1854); "Porphyrolaema Bonaparte, 1854, Ateneo Italiano, 2 (11), p. 315 (= Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 5). Type, by monotypy, Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville and Sclater." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 296).

porphyrolaema
Gr. πορφυρα porphura purple; λαιμος laimos throat.