Slaty Becard

SCI Name:  Pachyramphus spodiurus
Protonym:  Pachyrhamphus spodiurus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt(28)2 p.279
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tityridae / Pachyramphus
Taxonomy Code:  slabec1
Type Locality:  Babahoyo, Los Rios, Ecuador.
Author:  Sclater, PL
Publish Year:  1860
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

PACHYRAMPHUS
(Tityridae; Ϯ Green-backed Becard P. viridis) Gr. παχυς pakhus  stout, thick; ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; "rostro vix brevi, crasso, alto, rotundato-convexo, ad frontem largo, apice dentato" (von Spix 1826) (see Becardia); "PACHYRAMPHUS, n.  Pachyrhynchus, Spix.  Psaris, Cuv.   P. Cuvieri, (Swains.) n., Zool. Ill., t. 32." (G. Gray 1840); "The generic name of Pachyrhynchus Spix, is changed by Mr. G. R. Gray, to Pachyramphus, as the former word is used in entomology" (Darwin 1841); "Pachyramphus G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 31. Type, by original designation, Psaris Cuvierii Swainson = Tityra viridis Vieillot." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 229).
Synon. Bathmidurus, Berlepschia, Callopsaris, Chloropsaris, Climacocercus, Hadrostomus, Pachyrhamphus, Pachyrhynchus, Platypsaris, Zetetes.

spodiurus
Gr. σποδιος spodios  ash-coloured  < σποδος spodos  ashes; -ουρος -ouros  -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.