Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture / Cathartes burrovianus
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Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cathartes burrovianus Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 2 p.212
Taxonomy: Cathartiformes / Cathartidae / Cathartes
Taxonomy Code: lyhvul1
Type Locality: near Veracruz City, Mexico.
Author: Cassin
Publish Year: 1845
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CATHARTES
(Cathartidae; Ϯ Turkey Vulture C. aura) Gr. καθαρτης kathartēs cleanser < καθαριζω katharizō to cleanse; the Turkey Vulture acts as a very useful scavenger in the Neotropics; "GENUS 67. CATHARTES (καθαρτης purgator) Sarcoramphus Dumer. (Aasvogel Germ.) Rostrum mediocre crassiusculum, rectum, maxilla basi ceromate, saepius carunculato, tecta, dertro distincto fornicato compressiusculo, adunco. Nares in ceromatis antica parte prope culmen sitae, ovales, longitudinales, perviae, mesorhinio angusto tenui. Lingua canaliculata, margine serrata. Caput et collum superius nuda, aut carunculata, aut rugosa. Collum saepius torque plumarum cinctum. Pedes insidentes, validi, mediocres, nudi; tarsus digito medio fere brevior. Ungues validi, modici, incurvi, acuti. Tarsotheca squamulato-reticulata, acrodactyla scutulata. Pelma torosum, scabrum. Species: Vultur Papa, Aura Lin." (Illiger 1811); "Cathartes Illiger, 1811, Prodromus Syst. Mammalium Avium, p. 236. Type, by subsequent designation (Vigors, 1825, Zool. Journ., 2, p. 384), Vultur aura Linnaeus." (Amadon in Peters, 1979, 1, ed. 2, p. 275).
Var. Cathrartes, Catharthes, Cahartes.
Synon. Catharista, Gallinaza, Oenops, Rhinogryphus.
burrovianus
Dr Marmaduke Burrough (1798-1844) US physician, Consul to Vera Cruz, Mexico 1840, naturalist, collector in Mexico and the Far East (Cathartes).
SUBSPECIES
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (burrovianus)
SCI Name: Cathartes burrovianus burrovianus
burrovianus
Dr Marmaduke Burrough (1798-1844) US physician, Consul to Vera Cruz, Mexico 1840, naturalist, collector in Mexico and the Far East (Cathartes).
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (urubutinga)
SCI Name: Cathartes burrovianus urubutinga
urubutinga
Tupí name Urubú tinga big black bird, for a raptor (subsp. Cathartes burrovianus).
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)
