Bald Parrot / Pyrilia aurantiocephala
WBN 
Bald Parrot
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pionopsitta aurantiocephala Auk 119 p.816-819
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Pyrilia
Taxonomy Code: balpar1
Type Locality:
Author: Gaban-Lima, Raposo & Höfling
Publish Year: 2002
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
PYRILIA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Saffron-headed Parrot P. pyrilia) Specific name Psittacula pyrilia Bonaparte, 1853; "Faisons observer, à propos de cette espèce [Psittacula lineola Cassin] du Mexique et de Venezuela à la fois, qu'une autre bien plus brillante, notre pyrilia, forme maintenant avec l'amazonina, O. des Murs, notre genre Pyrilia; et que cette Pyrilia typica, Bp., n'a rien de commun avec Psittacus evops, Wagl." (Bonaparte 1856).
Var. Pyrilius.
Synon. Caica, Chapmania, Chapmaniana, Eucinetus, Gypopsitta.
pyrilia
Gr. πυρ pur, πυρος puros fire; L. ilia flanks < ile flank (cf. Med. L. pyralia torches).
aurantiocephala
Late Med. L. aurantius orange-coloured < aurantia orange; Gr. -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head.
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)
