Green-and-gold Tanager / Tangara schrankii
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Green-and-gold Tanager
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Protonym: Tanagra schrankii Av.Sp.Nov.Brasil. 2 p.38 pl.51 fig.1,2
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code: gagtan2
Type Locality: no locality; Tabatinga, Rio Solimoes, Brasil, suggested by Hellmayr, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 9, p. 93.
Author: von Spix
Publish Year: 1825
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TANGARA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Paradise Tanager T. chilensis paradisea) Tupí name Tangara dancer, one who turns and skips, for the manakins but subsequently (Marcgrave 1648) transferred to other bright finch-like birds (cf. Brazilian Portuguese name Dançador; Wayāpi name Tängala; genus Saltator); "Genus Tangaræ (1). ... (1) Tangara, nomen Brasilianum, quibusdam hujus generic speciebus inditum. Le genre du Tangara (1). ... (1) Tangara, nom qu'on donne au Brésil à quelques especes de ce genre. ... ** 1. LE TANGARA. Tangara superne splendide nigra, inferne Beryllina; uropygio flammeo; capite superius & ad latera viridi; collo inferiore cœruleo-violaceo; remigibus majoribus exterius cœruleo-violaceis, interius nigris; minoribus & rectricibus splendide nigris. . . . .TANGARA." (Brisson 1760): ex "Tangara Brasiliensibus" of Marcgrave 1648, Jonston 1650-1653, Willughby 1676, and Ray 1713, and "Avicula de Tatao" of Seba 1735; "Tangara Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 3, p. 3. Type, by tautonymy, Tangara Brisson = Aglaïa paradisea Swainson." (Storer in Peters 1970, XIII, 359).
Var. Tanara.
Synon. Aglaia, Calliste, Calospiza, Chalcothraupis, Chrysothraupis, Diva, Euprepiste, Euschemon, Gyrola, Hypothlypis, Ixothraupis, Poecilostreptus, Procnopis, Stilpnia, Tanagraoides, Tanagrella, Tatao, Thraupis.
schrankii
Prof. Franz von Paula Schrank (1747-1835) German theologian, botanist, entomologist, collector (Tangara).
SUBSPECIES
Green-and-gold Tanager (schrankii)
SCI Name: Tangara schrankii schrankii
schrankii
Prof. Franz von Paula Schrank (1747-1835) German theologian, botanist, entomologist, collector (Tangara).
Green-and-gold Tanager (venezuelana)
SCI Name: Tangara schrankii venezuelana
venezuelae / venezuelana / venezuelanus / venezuelense / venezuelensis
Venezuela (Italian Venezuola, a diminutive of Venezia Venice, alluding to native houses on stilts in the waters of Lake Maracaibo).
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)
