White-eyed Parakeet
White-eyed Parakeet
Here the details of the White-eyed Parakeet named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Psittacus leucophthalmus Natursyst.Suppl. Suppl. p.75
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Psittacara
Taxonomy Code: whepar2
Type Locality: Guiana.
Author: Statius Muller
Publish Year: 1776
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PSITTACARA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ White-eyed Parakeet P. leucophthalmus) Portmanteau of genera Psittacula Cuvier, 1800, parakeet, and Ara de Lacépède, 1799, macaw; "These birds, although their cheeks are covered with feathers and they are thus brought within the circle of the Parrakeets, have yet the bill of the Maccaws ... From their osculant situation between the two groups, thus strikingly apparent, the species that exhibit these characters have received the familiar name of Parrakeet-Maccaws in our language, and of Perruche-Aras among the French Ornithologists. Like the true Maccaws they are exclusively natives of the New World. Two species, lately added to our collections in this country, and which appear to me to be new to science, afford me an opportunity of characterizing this interesting group, which from its intermediate station between the two subfamilies, and with a reference to the trivial name already bestowed upon it, I shall denominate PSITTACARA. ... The Psittacus Guianensis of Linnaeus, the Perruche-Ara Pavouane of M. Le Vaillant [Pl. 14. 15] may be selected as the type of this genus" (Vigors 1825).
Var. Psittacaria, Psittacarus.
Synon. Evopsitta, Maracana, Protoconurus, Thectocercus.
leucophtalmos / leucophthalma / leucophthalmos / leucophthalmum / leucophthalmus
Gr. λευκος leukos white; οφθαλμος ophthalmos eye (cf. λευκοφθαλμος leukophthalmos white-eye, type of gem).
SUBSPECIES
White-eyed Parakeet (nicefori)
SCI Name: Psittacara leucophthalmus nicefori
nicefori / niceforoi
Br. Nicéforo María (born Antoine Rouhaire) (1888-1980) French missionary to Colombia 1908-1980, zoologist, collector (‡Anas, subsp. Muscisaxicola maculirostris, syn. Psittacara leucophthalmus callogenys, Thryophilus).
White-eyed Parakeet (callogenys)
SCI Name: Psittacara leucophthalmus callogenys
callogenys
Gr. καλλος kallos beauty < καλος kalos beautiful; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos jaw, cheek, chin.
White-eyed Parakeet (leucophthalmus)
SCI Name: Psittacara leucophthalmus leucophthalmus
leucophtalmos / leucophthalma / leucophthalmos / leucophthalmum / leucophthalmus
Gr. λευκος leukos white; οφθαλμος ophthalmos eye (cf. λευκοφθαλμος leukophthalmos white-eye, type of gem).
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)