Black-fronted Piping-Guan / Pipile jacutinga

Black-fronted Piping-Guan / Pipile jacutinga

Black-fronted Piping-Guan

SCI Name:  Pipile jacutinga
Protonym:  Penelope jacutinga Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.53 pl.70
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Cracidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bfpgua1
Type Locality:  Between Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.
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Publish Year:  1825
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DEFINITIONS

PIPILE
(Cracidae; Ϯ Trinidad Piping Guan P. pipile) Specific name Crax pipile von Jacquin, 1784; "I. PENELOPEÆ.  ...  20. Pipile, Bp.   48. leucolophos, Merr. (pipile, Gm.  jacutinga, Spix.)   49. cumanensis, Gm.   50. nigrifrons, Temm.   51. argyrotis, Bp." (Bonaparte 1856); "Pipile Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 42, 1856, p. 877. Type, by tautonymy, Penelope leucolophos Merrem = Crax pipile Jacquin." (Peters 1934, II, 22). Recent work indicates that this genus should be included in Aburria.
Synon. Cumana.

pipile
German Pipen (modern Pfeifer)  piper (cf. L. pipilare  to chirp  < pipare  to chirp); "Der Pipile.  Tab. II.  CRAX (Pipile)  ...  Sein Stimme besteht in einem sansten Pipen, woher er auch obbesagten Nahmen bey den Amerikanern erhalten hat." (von Jacquin 1784) (Pipile).

jacutinga
Tupí name Jacú tinga white fowl, for a guan (Pipile).