Thick-billed Parrot / Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
WBN 
Thick-billed Parrot
SCI Name:
Protonym: Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Philos.Mag.n.s. n.s., 1 p.439
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Rhynchopsitta
Taxonomy Code: thbpar
Type Locality: Tableland of Mexico.
Author: Swainson
Publish Year: 1827
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
RHYNCHOPSITTA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Thick-billed Parrot R. pachyrhynchus) Gr. ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill; Mod. L. psitta parrot < Gr. ψιττακη psittakē parrot; "Subfam. I. MACROCERCINÆ. ... 3. RHYNCHOPSITTA, Bp. — 13. Pachyrhyncha, Sw." (Bonaparte 1854); "Rhynchopsitta Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 149. Type, by monotypy, Macrocercus pachyrhynchus Swainson." (Peters 1937, III, 192).
Var. Rhyncopsitta, Rhynchopsittacus.
pachyrhyncha
Gr. παχυς pakhus large, thick, stout; ῥυγχος rhunkhos bill.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
