Blue-backed Tanager

SCI Name:  Cyanicterus cyanicterus
Protonym:  Pyranga cyanicterus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 28 p.290
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Cyanicterus
Taxonomy Code:  blbtan2
Type Locality:  l''Amerique meridionale ; Cayenne suggested by Berlepsch, 1908, Novit. Zool., 15, p. 116.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1819
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYANICTERUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Blue-backed Tanager C. cyanicterus) Specific name Pyranga cyanictera Vieillot, 1819; "*514. Cyanicterus, Bp. (Pyranga, p. Gr. - Tachyphonus, p. Less.) Rostrum longum curvum.  Amer. mer. 1.    PYRANGA CYANICTERA, Vieill. (Tachyphonus cyanicterus, Less. - Cyanicterus venustus, Bp.) Gal. Ois. t. 81. ex Am. Mer.  Mas azureus; abdomine tantum flavo.  Faem. viridi-cyanea; subtus omnino flava." (Bonaparte 1850); "Cyanicterus Bonaparte, 1851?, Consp. Gen. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 240. Type, by [tautonymy and] monotypy, Pyranga cyanictera Vieillot." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 326).
Synon. Callithraupis.

cyanicterus
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; ικτερος ikteros jaundice-yellow.

CYANICTERUS
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Blue-backed Tanager C. cyanicterus) Specific name Pyranga cyanictera Vieillot, 1819; "*514. Cyanicterus, Bp. (Pyranga, p. Gr. - Tachyphonus, p. Less.) Rostrum longum curvum.  Amer. mer. 1.    PYRANGA CYANICTERA, Vieill. (Tachyphonus cyanicterus, Less. - Cyanicterus venustus, Bp.) Gal. Ois. t. 81. ex Am. Mer.  Mas azureus; abdomine tantum flavo.  Faem. viridi-cyanea; subtus omnino flava." (Bonaparte 1850); "Cyanicterus Bonaparte, 1851?, Consp. Gen. Avium, 1 (1850), p. 240. Type, by [tautonymy and] monotypy, Pyranga cyanictera Vieillot." (Storer in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 326).
Synon. Callithraupis.

cyanicterus
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; ικτερος ikteros jaundice-yellow.