Saffron Toucanet

SCI Name:  Pteroglossus bailloni
Protonym:  Ramphastos Bailloni Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 34 p.283
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Ramphastidae / Pteroglossus
Taxonomy Code:  saftou2
Type Locality:  No locality = Brazil ex LeVaillant, Hist. Nat. Toucans, no. 18.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1819
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

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.

bailloni
● Louis Antoine François Baillon (1778-1855) French naturalist, natural history dealer (syn. Cormobates leucophaea, Puffinus (ex "Puffinus obscurus" of Baillon MS), syn. Sternula antillarum, syn. Zapornia pusilla intermedia).
● Jean François Emmanuel Baillon (1742-1801) French lawyer, naturalist, collector (Laurent Chevrier & Christophe Gouraud in litt.) (syn. Gavia stellata, Pteroglossus (ex “Aracari Baillon” of Levaillant 1806)).