Golden-mantled Racquet-tail / Prioniturus platurus
Golden-mantled Racquet-tail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Psittacus platurus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat.(1817) (1817), 25 p.314
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Prioniturus
Taxonomy Code: gmrtai1
Type Locality: New Caledonia, error = Celebes.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1818
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PRIONITURUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Golden-mantled Racquet-tail P. platurus) Genus Prionites Illiger, 1811, motmot; Gr. ουρα oura tail; "Genus V. Prioniturus ***) Wagl. Momotsittich. Character generis praecedentis [Nymphicus]; rostrum validum; rectrices duae intermediae ante apicem nudae. Species Asiae incola. Vitae ratio ignota. Species: 1. P. platurus. ... ***) Sic dictus ob caudae structuram ut in Prionite Momoto. Prionites (avis) et ουρα cauda." (Wagler 1832); "Prioniturus Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 490. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus platurus Vieillot." (Peters 1937, III, 236).
Synon. Discosurus, Urodiscus.
platurus
Gr. πλατυς platus broad, wide, flat; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
● ex “Drongo à Raquettes” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 175 (subsp. Dicrurus paradiseus).
Platurus
(syn. Discosura Ϯ Racquet-tailed Coquette D. longicaudus) Gr. πλατυς platus broad, wide; ουρα oura tail (cf. specific name Trochilus platurus Latham 1790 (= syn. Discosura longicaudus)); "LES PLATURES. Platurus. Nob. La queue est composée de rectrices acuminées; les deux externes à tiges sous barbes, et terminées par des palettes ovalaires. ESP. 19. OISEAU-MOUCHE A RAQUETTES. Ornismya platura. N. ... Trochilus longicaudus, L. Gm. sp. 60. Trochilus platurus, Lath., sp. 55" (Lesson 1829). Var. Platura.
SUBSPECIES
Golden-mantled Racquet-tail (talautensis)
SCI Name: Prioniturus platurus talautensis
talaudensis / talautenea / talautense / talautensis
Talaut Is., Dutch East Indies / Talaud Is., Indonesia.
Golden-mantled Racquet-tail (platurus)
SCI Name: Prioniturus platurus platurus
platurus
Gr. πλατυς platus broad, wide, flat; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
● ex “Drongo à Raquettes” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 175 (subsp. Dicrurus paradiseus).
Golden-mantled Racquet-tail (sinerubris)
SCI Name: Prioniturus platurus sinerubris
sinerubris
L. sine without; ruber, rubra red.
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)