Goldie’s Lorikeet / Psitteuteles goldiei

Goldie\'s Lorikeet / Psitteuteles goldiei

Goldie's Lorikeet

SCI Name:  Psitteuteles goldiei
Protonym:  Trichoglossus Goldiei J.Linn.Soc.LondonZool. 16 p.317,426
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gollor1
Type Locality:  Astrolabe Mountains, New Guinea.
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Publish Year:  1882
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DEFINITIONS

PSITTEUTELES
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Varied Lorikeet P. versicolor) Specific name Psittacus euteles Temminck, 1835; "75. PSITTEUTELES, Bp. — 304. Versicolor, Vig. — 305. Iris, Temm. — 306. Euteles, Temm. — 307. Placens, Temm." (Bonaparte 1854); "Psitteuteles Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 157. Type, by subsequent designation, Psittacus versicolor Vigors, i.e. Trichoglossus versicolor Lear. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 88.)" (Peters 1937, III, 151).
Synon. Ptilosclera.

goldiei / goldii
Andrew Goldie (1840-1891) Scottish botanist, soldier of fortune, explorer, collector in New Guinea (subsp. Cinclosoma ajax, subsp. Macropygia amboinensis, syn. Melidora macrorrhina, subsp. Ninox theomacha, Psitteuteles).