Yellow-winged Tanager / Thraupis abbas
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Yellow-winged Tanager
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Protonym: Tanagra Abbas Preis-Verzeichn.Saugeth.Vog.Mex.gesam. p.2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Thraupis
Taxonomy Code: yewtan1
Type Locality: Jalapa [, Veracruz], Mexico, fide Stresemann, 1954, Condor, 56, p. 91.
Author: Deppe
Publish Year: 1830
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
Thraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Golden-chevroned Tanager T. ornata) Gr. θραυπις thraupis unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "XII. Fam. Tangaridae. Tanagra Lin. ... Thraupis: Tan. archiepiscopus Desm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Thraupis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 974. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra archiepiscopus Desmarest = Tanagra ornata Sparrman. ... Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1968, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 25, p. 74." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 318). Var. Thrapis.
abbas
Late L. abbas, abbatis abbot < L. abba father.
● "70. [Tanagra] Abbas Lichtenst. Körper gelbgrün, Kopf blau, Flügel schwarz mit gelbem Spiegel." (Deppe 1830 per Cabanis 1863); probably complimenting Tanagra episcopus Linnaeus, 1766 (Tangara).
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)
