Blue-headed Macaw / Primolius couloni
WBN 
Blue-headed Macaw
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ara couloni Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.255,fig.
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Primolius
Taxonomy Code: buhmac1
Type Locality: Eastern Peru.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1876
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
PRIMOLIUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Yellow-collared Macaw P. auricollis) Pietro Conte Primoli di Foglia (1821-1883) husband to Charlotte Honorine Joséphine Pauline Bonaparte (1832-1901), daughter of French ornithologist Prince Charles Bonaparte (cf. specific name Sittace primoli Bonaparte, 1853 (= syn. Primolius auricollis)); "5. PRIMOLIUS, Bp., comprend les autres Araés à joues poilues, auricollis, Cass., maracana, Vieill., et makawanna, Gm." (Bonaparte 1857) (OD per Laurent Raty).
Synon. Propyrrhura.
couloni
Paul Louis de Coulon (1804-1894) Swiss zoologist, Director of Neuchâtel Mus. (Primolius).
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)
