Golden-chevroned Tanager / Thraupis ornata
WBN 
Golden-chevroned Tanager
SCI Name:
Protonym: Tanagra ornata Mus.Carls. fasc.4 pl.95
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Thraupis
Taxonomy Code: goctan2
Type Locality: in India Orientali ; error, Rio de Janeiro substituted by Berlepsch, 1912, Verh. V Intern. Ornith. Kongr., Berlin, 1911, p. 1054.
Author: Sparrman
Publish Year: 1789
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
Thraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Golden-chevroned Tanager T. ornata) Gr. θραυπις thraupis unidentified small bird, perhaps some kind of finch, mentioned by Aristotle. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "XII. Fam. Tangaridae. Tanagra Lin. ... Thraupis: Tan. archiepiscopus Desm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Thraupis Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 974. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra archiepiscopus Desmarest = Tanagra ornata Sparrman. ... Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1968, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 25, p. 74." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 318). Var. Thrapis.
ornata
L. ornatus ornate, adorned, decorated, splendid, embellished < ornare to adorn.
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)
