Nicaraguan Grackle / Quiscalus nicaraguensis

Nicaraguan Grackle / Quiscalus nicaraguensis

Nicaraguan Grackle

SCI Name:  Quiscalus nicaraguensis
Protonym:  Quiscalus nicaraguensis Ibis p.612
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Icteridae /
Taxonomy Code:  nicgra1
Type Locality:  Momotombo, Lake Managua.
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Publish Year:  1891
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DEFINITIONS

QUISCALUS
(Icteridae; Ϯ Common Grackle Q. quiscula) Specific name Gracula quiscula Linnaeus, 1758; "98. QUISCALE, Quiscalus.  Gracula, Corvus, Lin. Gm. Lath.  Bec glabre et comprimé à la base, droit, entier, à bords anguleux et fléchis en dedans, incliné vers le bout; mandibule supérieure prolongée en pointe dans les plumes du front.   Esp. Gracula quiscala et Corvus mexicanus, Lin. Gm. Lath." (Vieillot 1816); "Quiscalus Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 36. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List. Genera Birds, ed. 1, p. 41), Gr.[acula] quiscala [= quiscula] Linnaeus." (Blake in Peters 1968, XIV, 187).
Var. Quiscalis, Quisculus, Quisqualus, Quisqualis, Qviscalus.
Synon. Cassidix, ChalcophanesHoloquiscalus, Megaquiscalus, Quiscala, Scaphidurus, Scaphura.

nicaraguae / nicaraguensis
Nicaragua (i.e. Nicarao's lake; Nicarao was a local chieftain who opposed the conquistadores; Spanish agua water, lake).