Large Fig-Parrot

SCI Name:  Psittaculirostris desmarestii
Protonym:  Psittacus Desmarestii Dict.Sci.Nat. 39 p.89
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Psittaculirostris
Taxonomy Code:  lafpar1
Type Locality:  Dorey [now Manokwari], New Guinea.
Author:  Desmarest
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PSITTACULIROSTRIS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Large Fig Parrot P. desmarestii) Genus Psittacula Cuvier, 1800, parakeet; L. -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak (i.e. large-billed); "Les PSITTACULIROSTRES.  Bec gros, très-robuste, voûté; la queue courte, pointue." (Lesson 1831); "Psittacula (Psittaculirostris) Desmaresti, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 204." (J. Gray & G. Gray 1859); "Psittaculirostris J. E. and G. R. Gray, Cat. Mamm. Bds. New Guinea, Brit. Mus., 1859, p. 42. Type, by monotypy, Psittacula desmarestii Lesson 1830 = Psittacus desmarestii Desmarest 1826." (Peters 1937, III, 163).
Var. Psittacirostris.
Synon. Cruopsitta.

desmaresti / desmarestii
Anselme Gætan Desmarest (1784-1838) French zoologist (syn. Dicaeum hirundinaceum, subsp. Phalacrocorax aristotelis, syn. Platysteira cyanea ♀, Psittaculirostris, Tangara (ex “Tangara rouverdin, femelle” of Desmarest 1805), syn. Tangara viridissima (ex “Tanagra gyrola” of Swainson 1829)).

SUBSPECIES

Large Fig-Parrot (Large)
SCI Name: Psittaculirostris desmarestii [desmarestii Group]
PSITTACULIROSTRIS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Large Fig Parrot P. desmarestii) Genus Psittacula Cuvier, 1800, parakeet; L. -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak (i.e. large-billed); "Les PSITTACULIROSTRES.  Bec gros, très-robuste, voûté; la queue courte, pointue." (Lesson 1831); "Psittacula (Psittaculirostris) Desmaresti, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 204." (J. Gray & G. Gray 1859); "Psittaculirostris J. E. and G. R. Gray, Cat. Mamm. Bds. New Guinea, Brit. Mus., 1859, p. 42. Type, by monotypy, Psittacula desmarestii Lesson 1830 = Psittacus desmarestii Desmarest 1826." (Peters 1937, III, 163).
Var. Psittacirostris.
Synon. Cruopsitta.

Large Fig-Parrot (Yellow-naped)
SCI Name: Psittaculirostris desmarestii godmani
godmani
Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919) English ornithologist, entomologist, horticulturalist, collector of objets d’art (subsp. Basileuterus culicivorus, syn. Coereba flaveola aterrima, subsp. Colinus virginianus, subsp. Euphonia affinis, syn. Nothoprocta taczanowskii, syn. Piculus auricularis, Psittaculirostris, syn. Puffinus lherminieri bailloni).

Large Fig-Parrot (Red-faced)
SCI Name: Psittaculirostris desmarestii cervicalis
cervicalis
L. cervicalis  cervical, of the neck  < cervix, cervicis  neck.
● ex “Red-naped Parrakeet” of Latham 1787 (artefact).
● See: cervina (subsp. Dacelo leachii).