Spix's Macaw

SCI Name:  Cyanopsitta spixii
Protonym:  Sittace Spixii Abh.K.Bay.Akad.Wiss. 1 p.675
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Cyanopsitta
Taxonomy Code:  spimac1
Type Locality:  Based on Arara hyacinthinus Spix, not of Latham, type from Joazeiro, Rio Sao Francisco, Brazil.
Author:  Wagler
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Extinct in the Wild

DEFINITIONS

CYANOPSITTA
(Psittacidae; † Spix's Macaw C. spixii) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; Mod. L. psitta  parrot  < Gr. ψιττακη psittakē  parrot; "a. Cyanopsitta, Bp.  —  2. Glaucus, Vieill.  —  3. Spixi, Wagl." (Bonaparte 1854); "Cyanopsitta Bonap., Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 149  (Type Sittace spixii Wagl.)." (Cory, 1918, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. II (1), 52); "CYANOPSITTA Bonaparte, 1854  F— Sittace spixii Wagler, 1832; type by subsequent designation (Salvadori, 1891, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 20, p. 150)." (Dickinson and Remsen (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2013, 1 (Non-passerines), p. 367) (N.B.: G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 87, gives Psittacus glaucus Vieillot, as the type of this genus).
Var. Cyanopsittacus (Gr. ψιττακος psittakos  parrot).

spixi / spixii
Dr Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (1781-1826) German naturalist, collector in Brazil 1817-1820 (Cyanopsitta, syn. Nothura boraquira, syn. Ortalis araucuan, subsp. Pachyramphus polychopterus, syn. Pionopsitta pileata, syn. Ramphodon dohrnii, syn. Spizaetus tyrannus, Synallaxis, syn. Vanellus melanopterus, Xiphorhynchus).