Azure-breasted Pitta / Pitta steerii
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Azure-breasted Pitta
SCI Name:
Protonym: Brachyurus Steerii Nature 14 p.297
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pittidae / Pitta
Taxonomy Code: azbpit1
Type Locality: Dumalon, Mindanao.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1876
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
PITTA
(Pittidae; Ϯ Indian Pitta P. brachyura) Telugu Dravidian name pitta pretty bauble or pet; "137. BRÈVE, Pitta. Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath. Bec robuste, un peu épais à la base, droit, convexe en dessus, comprimé, pointu; mandibule supérieure échancrée vers le bout; l'inférieure entière, égale. — Ailes longues. — Queue courte. Esp. Brève, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Pitta Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 42. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds, p. 43), Corvus triostegus Sparrman = Corvus brachyurus Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters 1979, VIII, 310).
Var. Pelta.
Synon. Austropitta, Brachyurus, Calopitta, Cervinipitta, Citta, Coloburis, Cyanopitta, Galeripitta, Melanopitta, Merula, Pulchripitta.
steerei / steerii
Prof. Joseph Beal Steere (1842-1940) US ornithologist, zoologist, palaeontologist, anthropologist, explorer, collector in Brazil, Peru and Ecuador 1870-1873, 1901, Taiwan 1873-1874, the Philippines and Moluccas 1874-1875, 1887-1888 (Centropus, syn. Ceyx cyanopectus, Eubucco, Liocichla, Oriolus, syn. Otus manadensis, Pernis, Pitta, subsp. Pyrrhula leucogenis, Sarcophanops).
SUBSPECIES
Azure-breasted Pitta (coelestis)
SCI Name: Pitta steerii coelestis
coelestis
L. coelestis or caelestis heavenly, glorious < caelum heaven (cf. Med. L. celestis sky-blue).
Azure-breasted Pitta (steerii)
SCI Name: Pitta steerii steerii
steerei / steerii
Prof. Joseph Beal Steere (1842-1940) US ornithologist, zoologist, palaeontologist, anthropologist, explorer, collector in Brazil, Peru and Ecuador 1870-1873, 1901, Taiwan 1873-1874, the Philippines and Moluccas 1874-1875, 1887-1888 (Centropus, syn. Ceyx cyanopectus, Eubucco, Liocichla, Oriolus, syn. Otus manadensis, Pernis, Pitta, subsp. Pyrrhula leucogenis, Sarcophanops).
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)
