Glaucous-blue Grosbeak / Cyanoloxia glaucocaerulea
Glaucous-blue Grosbeak
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pyrrhula glauco-caerulea Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.85
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cardinalidae / Cyanoloxia
Taxonomy Code: glbgro1
Type Locality: Maldonado, Uruguay.
Author: d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year: 1837
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CYANOLOXIA
(Cardinalidae; † Glaucous-blue Grosbeak C. glaucocaerulea) Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; genus Loxia Linnaeus, 1758, crossbill; "*1030. Cyanoloxia, Bp. (Guiraca, p. Gr.) America. 5. 1. LOXIA caerulea, L. (Fringilla caerulea, Bp. - Pyurrhula carolinensis caerulea, Br. - Guiraca hinc Coccoborus caeruleus, Sw.) Catesb. Carol. I. t. 39. - Wils. Am. Orn. t. 24. 6. - Aud. Am. t. 122. ex merid. Am. s. ... 2. LOXIA cyanea, L. (L. caerulea, var. β. Gm. - Pyrrhula caerulea brasiliana, Br. - Fringilla brissoni, Licht. - Pitylus cyaneus, Lafr. - Pitylus cyaneus, et P. brissoni, Gr. sp. 5. et 6.) Br. Orn. III. t. 17. 2. - Edw. B. t. 125. Vieill. Ois. Chant. t. 64. - Azara 119. ex Am. m. Bras. Parag. ... 3. COCCOBORUS cyanoides, Lafr. (Pitylus cyanoides, Gr.) Rev. Zool. 1847. p. 74. sp. 17. ex Panama. ... *4. FRINGILLA parellina, Licht. (Pitylus lazulus? Less. Rev. Zool. 1842. p. 174.) Mus. Berol. ex Mexico, Alvarado. ... 5. PYRRHULA glauco-caerulea, Lafr. (Spermophila glauco-caerulea, Gr.) Orb. Voy. Am. m. t. 50. 2. ex Am. m. or. Maldonado." (Bonaparte 1850 (Consp. Avium)); "Nous y rattachons le nouveau genre Cyanoloxia, BP. dont le type Loxia caerulea, L., a été aussi considéré comme une Guiraca, mais à laquelle nous réunissons trois au quatre autres Pityliens bleus inextricablement confondus, et ballotés dans les genres Loxia, Fringilla, Guiraca, Coccoborus, Pyrrhula, et peut-être même Tanagra" (Bonaparte 1850 (Monog. Loxiens)); "The type of Cyanoloxia, by elimination, is Pyrrhula glauco-cærulea D'Orbigny." (Ridgway 1901); "425. gen. CYANOLOXIA Bp. (Tipo, por eliminación: Phyrrula [sic] glaucocaerulea Orb.)" (Dabbene 1910); "Cyanoloxia Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., 1, (2), p. 502, end of 1850— type, by present designation, Pyrrhula glauco-caerulea Lafresnaye and d'Orbigny.1 ... 1 The same species was indicated as "type by elimination" by Ridgway (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 50, Part 1, p. 594, footnote, 1901) and Dabbene (Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, 18, p. 378, 1910)." (Hellmayr, 1938, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. XI, p. 105).
Var. Cyanoloxias.
glaucocaerulea / glaucocaeruleus
L. glaucus glaucous < Gr. γλαυκος glaukos glaucous; caeruleus dark-blue.
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)