Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager / Anisognathus somptuosus

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager / Anisognathus somptuosus

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager

SCI Name:  Anisognathus somptuosus
Protonym:  Tachyphonus somptuosus TraitedOrn. livr.6 p.463
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bwmtan1
Type Locality:  no locality; type from Peru, fide Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 203.
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Publish Year:  1831
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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.

somptuosa / somptuosus
L. sumptuosus  extravagant, sumptuous, costly  < sumptus  expense.

SUBSPECIES

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager (Blue-winged)
SCI Name: Anisognathus somptuosus [somptuosus Group]
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.

Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager (Bolivian)
SCI Name: Anisognathus somptuosus flavinucha
flavinucha / flavinuchus
L. flavus  yellow, golden-yellow; Med. L. nuchus  nape  < Arabic nukhā'  spinal marrow.