Blue-fronted Lorikeet

SCI Name:  Charmosyna toxopei
Protonym:  Hypocharmosyna toxopei Treubia 7 suppl. p.252 pl.4
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Charmosyna
Taxonomy Code:  blflor1
Type Locality:  Buru.
Author:  Siebers
Publish Year:  1930
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

CHARMOSYNA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Papuan Lorikeet C. papou) Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together; "Genus X.  Charmosyna ***) Wagl.  Sittichlori.   Rostrum, lingua et pedes Trichoglossorum; cauda longula, cuneata, rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis.   Australiae incola.  Vitae ratio ignota.  Species: 1. Ch. papuensis.   ...   ***) Xαρμοσυνος  amoenus. — Avis generis naturaliter connectit psittacos praecedentes longicaudatos [Trichoglossus] cum sequentibus [Eos], qui rubri sunt et caudam conico-acuminatam habent." (Wagler 1832); "Charmosyna Wagler, Abh. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 493. Type, by monotypy, Ch. papuensis = Psittacus papuensis Gmelin = Psittacus papou Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 158).
Var. Charmosina.
Synon. Charminetta, Charmosynopsis, Hypocharmosyna, Pyrrhodes.

charmosyna
Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together.

toxopei / toxopeusi
Prof. Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus (1894-1951) Dutch zoologist, entomologist, botanist, lecturer, teacher in Java, collector in the East Indies and New Guinea (syn. Acrocephalus stentoreus sumbae, Charmosyna, subsp. Daphoenositta papuensis).