Blue-winged Racquet-tail / Prioniturus verticalis
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Blue-winged Racquet-tail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Prioniturus verticalis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 3 p.10
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Prioniturus
Taxonomy Code: bwrtai1
Type Locality: Tawi Tawi, Sibutu and Bongao.
Author: Sharpe
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
PRIONITURUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Golden-mantled Racquet-tail P. platurus) Genus Prionites Illiger, 1811, motmot; Gr. ουρα oura tail; "Genus V. Prioniturus ***) Wagl. Momotsittich. Character generis praecedentis [Nymphicus]; rostrum validum; rectrices duae intermediae ante apicem nudae. Species Asiae incola. Vitae ratio ignota. Species: 1. P. platurus. ... ***) Sic dictus ob caudae structuram ut in Prionite Momoto. Prionites (avis) et ουρα cauda." (Wagler 1832); "Prioniturus Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 490. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus platurus Vieillot." (Peters 1937, III, 236).
Synon. Discosurus, Urodiscus.
verticalis
Late L. verticalis crowned, of the head < L. vertex, verticis crown of the head.
● ex “Ash-bellied Creeper” of Latham 1787 (Cyanomitra).
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)
