Black-chinned Mountain-Tanager / Anisognathus notabilis
WBN 
Black-chinned Mountain-Tanager
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tanagra notabilis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt23 no.289 p.84 pl.91
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Anisognathus
Taxonomy Code: bcmtan2
Type Locality: the eastern range of Cordilleras to the north of Quito [, Ecuador] .
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1855
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ANISOGNATHUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Fire-bellied Mountain Tanager A. igniventris) Gr. ανισος anisos unequal < negative prefix αν- an- ; ισος isos equal; γναθος gnathos lower jaw; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXVII, labelled Passerinae: Fringillinae Tanagrinae, shows the toothed upper mandible, shortened lower mandible, and stubby, somewhat bullfinch-like bill of these mountain tanagers. "Anisognathus Reichenbach, June 1, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 77. Type, by subsequent designation (Bonaparte, 1851, Rev. Mag. Zoll.[sic] [Paris], ser. 2, 3, p. 172, Tanagra igniventris d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 331).
Synon. Compsocoma, Poecilothraupis.
notabilis
L. notabilis remarkable < notare to mark < nota mark.
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)
