Glossy-backed Becard

SCI Name:  Pachyramphus surinamus
Protonym:  [Muscicapa] surinama Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.325
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Tityridae / Pachyramphus
Taxonomy Code:  glbbec1
Type Locality:  Surinam.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1766
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PACHYRAMPHUS
(Tityridae; Ϯ Green-backed Becard P. viridis) Gr. παχυς pakhus  stout, thick; ῥαμφος rhamphos  bill; "rostro vix brevi, crasso, alto, rotundato-convexo, ad frontem largo, apice dentato" (von Spix 1826) (see Becardia); "PACHYRAMPHUS, n.  Pachyrhynchus, Spix.  Psaris, Cuv.   P. Cuvieri, (Swains.) n., Zool. Ill., t. 32." (G. Gray 1840); "The generic name of Pachyrhynchus Spix, is changed by Mr. G. R. Gray, to Pachyramphus, as the former word is used in entomology" (Darwin 1841); "Pachyramphus G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 31. Type, by original designation, Psaris Cuvierii Swainson = Tityra viridis Vieillot." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 229).
Synon. Bathmidurus, Berlepschia, Callopsaris, Chloropsaris, Climacocercus, Hadrostomus, Pachyrhamphus, Pachyrhynchus, Platypsaris, Zetetes.

surinama / surinamensis / surinamus
Surinam or Suriname (after an indigenous people, the Surinen).
● ex “Hirondelle de mer grande espèce” of Fermin 1769, and “Surinam Tern” of Latham 1785 (subsp. Chlidonias niger).
● ex “Tourterelle” of Fermin 1769, and “Surinam Turtle” of Latham 1783 (?syn. Columba speciosa ☼).
● ex “Yellow-cheeked Creeper” (= ♀) of Pennant 1785 (syn. Cyanerpes caeruleus).
● ex “Surinam Tern” of Brown 1776, and “Surinam Darter” of Latham 1785 (syn. Heliornis fulica).
● ex "Merle de Surinam" of Brisson 1760 (Maschalethraupis).
● ex “Surinam Daw” of Brown 1756, and “Surinam Crow” of Latham 1781 (syn. Molothrus oryzivorus).
● ex “Surinam Nuthatch” of Latham 1782 (Myrmotherula).
● ex “Proyer” of Fermin 1769, and “Surinam Bunting” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
● "60. TROCHILUS.  ...  surinamensis.  12. T. rectricibus ferrugineis, remigibus nigris, corpore aureo subtus albicante.  Habitat in America." (Linnaeus 1758) (unident.; nom. dub.).