Curl-crested Aracari

SCI Name:  Pteroglossus beauharnaesii
Protonym:  Pteroglossus Beauharnaesii Isis 25 col.280
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Ramphastidae / Pteroglossus
Taxonomy Code:  cucara1
Type Locality:  State of Para, Brazil; upper Amazonian region of eastern Peru substituted by Cory, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Sen, 13, pt. 2, no. 2, 1919, p. 373, note a.
Author:  Wagler
Publish Year:  1832
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PTEROGLOSSUS
(Ramphastidae; Ϯ Black-necked Araçari P. aracari) Gr. πτερον pteron  feather; γλωσσα glōssa  tongue; "GENUS 4. PTEROGLOSSUS (πτερον penna  γλωσσα lingua) (Federzüngler Germ. Aracari Gall.)   Rostrum capite longius, crassum, tenue, inane, cultratum, basi margine incrassato, maxillae angulo frontali obtuso. Tomia serrata.  Nares superae, in maxillae basi. Lingua mediocris, angusta, pennacea.  Cauda gradata.  Pedes scansorii. Digiti externi internis longiores. Acropodia scutulata.   Species: Ramphastos Aracari, viridis Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Pteroglossus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 202. Type, by subsequent designation, Ramphastos aracari Linné. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 50.)" (Peters 1948, VI, 74).   
Synon. Aracari, Baillonius, Beauharnaisius, Grammarhynchus, Pyrosterna, Rhagoborus, Ulocomus.

beauharnaesii / beauharnaisii
Auguste Charles Eugène Napoléon de Beauharnais (1810-1835) 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, 2^nd Prince of Eichstätt, Prince-Consort of Portugal 1834-1835, collector and patron of the sciences (Pteroglossus).