Yellow-breasted Racquet-tail / Prioniturus flavicans
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Yellow-breasted Racquet-tail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Prioniturus flavicans Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 6 p.373
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Prioniturus
Taxonomy Code: yebrat1
Type Locality: Celebes.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1853
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
PRIONITURUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Golden-mantled Racquet-tail P. platurus) Genus Prionites Illiger, 1811, motmot; Gr. ουρα oura tail; "Genus V. Prioniturus ***) Wagl. Momotsittich. Character generis praecedentis [Nymphicus]; rostrum validum; rectrices duae intermediae ante apicem nudae. Species Asiae incola. Vitae ratio ignota. Species: 1. P. platurus. ... ***) Sic dictus ob caudae structuram ut in Prionite Momoto. Prionites (avis) et ουρα cauda." (Wagler 1832); "Prioniturus Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 490. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus platurus Vieillot." (Peters 1937, III, 236).
Synon. Discosurus, Urodiscus.
flavicans
Mod. L. flavicans, flavicantis becoming yellow, yellowing < L. flavere to be golden-yellow < flavus golden, yellow.
● ex “Citrin” of Levaillant 1803, pl. 127 (Prinia).
● "96. LOXIA. ... flavicans. 10. L. flava, dorso virescente, capite fulvo. Chin. Lagerstr. 17. Habitat in Asia." (Linnaeus 1758) (unident.).
● ex “Aldrovandus’s second bird of paradise” of Willughby 1676, “Manucodiata secunda Aldrovandi” of Ray 1713, “Apiaster flavicans” of Brisson 1760, “Guêpier à tête jaune et blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow Bee-eater” of Latham 1782 (unident.;?Paradisaea sp.).
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)
