Fiery-billed Aracari / Pteroglossus frantzii
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Fiery-billed Aracari
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pteroglossus Frantzii Sitz.Ges.Nat.FreundeBerlin [no p.]
Taxonomy: Piciformes / Ramphastidae / Pteroglossus
Taxonomy Code: fibara1
Type Locality: Costa Rica, type from Aguacate.
Author: Cabanis
Publish Year: 1861
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PTEROGLOSSUS
(Ramphastidae; Ϯ Black-necked Araçari P. aracari) Gr. πτερον pteron feather; γλωσσα glōssa tongue; "GENUS 4. PTEROGLOSSUS (πτερον penna γλωσσα lingua) (Federzüngler Germ. Aracari Gall.) Rostrum capite longius, crassum, tenue, inane, cultratum, basi margine incrassato, maxillae angulo frontali obtuso. Tomia serrata. Nares superae, in maxillae basi. Lingua mediocris, angusta, pennacea. Cauda gradata. Pedes scansorii. Digiti externi internis longiores. Acropodia scutulata. Species: Ramphastos Aracari, viridis Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Pteroglossus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 202. Type, by subsequent designation, Ramphastos aracari Linné. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1948, VI, 74).
Synon. Aracari, Baillonius, Beauharnaisius, Grammarhynchus, Pyrosterna, Rhagoborus, Ulocomus.
frantzii
Alexander von Frantzius (1821-1877) German physician, naturalist, anthropologist, collector in Brazil 1849-1853, resident in Costa Rica 1853-1868 (Catharus, Elaenia, Nothocercus, syn. Ortalis vetula, Pteroglossus, Semnornis, subsp. Tangara icterocephala).
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)
