Blue Cotinga / Cotinga nattererii
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Blue Cotinga
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Protonym: Ampelis Nattererii Rev.Zool. 3 p.2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cotingidae / Cotinga
Taxonomy Code: blucot1
Type Locality: 'Bogota,'' Colombia.
Author: Boissonneau
Publish Year: 1840
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
COTINGA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-breasted Cotinga C. cotinga) Tupí name Catingá bright forest (bird), for the colourful cotingas; "Cotinga, nom qu'on donne en Amérique à quelques especes de ce genre ... Cotinga superne splendide cœrulea, inferne purpuro-violacea; remigibus, rectricibusque nigris; oris exterioribus remigum minorum & rectricum cœruleis" (Brisson 1760): based on "Purple-breasted Blue Manakin" of Edwards 1758; "Cotinga Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 2, p. 339. Type, by tautonymy, "Cotinga" Brisson = Ampelis cotinga Linnaeus." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 297).
Synon. Hylocosmia, Orbignesius.
cotinga
Tupí name Catingá bright forest (bird), for the cotingas.
● ex “Cotinga” of Brisson 1760 (Cotinga).
natterei / nattereri / nattererii / natterii
Dr Johann Natterer (1787-1843) Austrian zoologist, collector, resident in Brazil 1817-1835 (subsp. Amazona ochrocephala, Anthus, subsp. Attila bolivianus, syn. Augastes scutatus, syn. Certhia brachydactyla, subsp. Colaptes melanochloros, Cotinga, Hylopezus, Lepidothrix, subsp. Loriotus cristatus (?x), Lurocalis, subsp. Momotus momota, subsp. Nonnula ruficapilla, Phaethornis, syn. Phylloscopus bonellii, Pipile, subsp. Platyrinchus platyrhynchos, syn. Poecilotriccus latirostris ochropterus, subsp. Rupornis magnirostris, Selenidera, syn. Tinamus solitarius, syn. Tityra inquisitor).
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)
