Cabot’s Tragopan / Tragopan caboti
Cabot's Tragopan
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ceriornis Caboti Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt25 no.337 p.161
Taxonomy: Galliformes / Phasianidae / Tragopan
Taxonomy Code: cabtra1
Type Locality: China, exact locality not known.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1857
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
TRAGOPAN
(Phasianidae; † Satyr Tragopan T. satyra) L. tragopan, tragopanis fabulous, horned purple-headed bird mentioned by Pliny and Pomponius Mela < Gr. τραγοπαν tragopan, τραγοπανος tragopanos unknown large Ethiopian bird, perhaps a hornbill; "LE TRAGOPAN. (TRAGOPAN, Cuv.) Est l'un des oiseaux dont la tête est, dans le mâle, le plus bizarrement ornée. Presque nue, elle a derrière chaque œil une petite corne grêle; sous la gorge est un fanon susceptible d'extension. Ses tarses ont des éperons courts dans les deux sexes. On n'en connaît qu'une espèce, originaire du nord de l'Inde, (le Nepaul ou Faisan cornu, Buff.; Penelope satyra, Gm.; Meleagris satyrus, Lath.) Edw., 116; Vieill., Gal., 206, de la taille du coq, d'un rouge éclatant semé de petites larmes blanches. La femelle et le jeune sont de différents bruns." (Cuvier 1829); "Tragopan Cuvier, Règne Anim., nouv. éd., 1, 1829, p. 479. Type, by monotypy, Meleagris satyra Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 109).
Var. Tragopon, Tragupan, Trapogon.
Synon. Ceratornix, Ceriornis, Diceratornis, Satyra.
• (Bucerotidae; syn. Bucorvus † Northern Ground Hornbill B. abyssinicus) Gr. τραγοπαν tragopan, τραγοπανος tragopanos unknown large Ethiopian bird, perhaps a hornbill; "4. TRAGOPAN. Rhinoceros avis BONT. & RAI. Des. Rostrum falcatum, basi superne in cornu recurvum excrescente. Lingua . . . . Cauda . . . . Digiti . . . . Obs. Tragopan nomen PLINII est, quod male ap. CHARLET. Onom. Tragopanda vertitur." (Moehring 1752); "TRAGOPAN, Mœhr. (1752). Bucorvus, Less. (1831). Buceros, Gm. T. abyssinicus, (Gm.) G. R. Gray. Pl. enl. 779." (G. Gray 1841); "Tragopan "Moehring" G. Gray, 1841, List Genera Birds, 2nd ed., p. 65. Type, by original designation, T. abyssinicus (Gm.), i.e. Buceros abyssinicus Boddaert, 1783." (JAJ 2021).
caboti
Dr Samuel Cabot, Jr. (1815-1885) US physician, collector in Yucatan 1841-1842, Curator of Ornithology for Boston Society of Natural History (subsp. Coereba flaveola, subsp. Colinus nigrogularis, syn. Leuconotopicus fumigatus sanguinolentus, syn. Melospiza georgiana, Tragopan).
SUBSPECIES
Cabot's Tragopan (caboti)
SCI Name: Tragopan caboti caboti
caboti
Dr Samuel Cabot, Jr. (1815-1885) US physician, collector in Yucatan 1841-1842, Curator of Ornithology for Boston Society of Natural History (subsp. Coereba flaveola, subsp. Colinus nigrogularis, syn. Leuconotopicus fumigatus sanguinolentus, syn. Melospiza georgiana, Tragopan).
Cabot's Tragopan (guangxiensis)
SCI Name: Tragopan caboti guangxiensis
guangxiensis
Guangxi Zhuang-zu Autonomous Region, China.
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)