Opal-rumped Tanager

SCI Name:  Tangara velia
Protonym:  Motacilla Velia Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.188
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Tangara
Taxonomy Code:  oprtan1
Type Locality:  Surinam.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  

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.

velia
Mod. L. (Holyoake 1639) velia  unknown small bird  <  Gr. ελεα elea (also ελεια eleia)  small marsh bird mentioned by Aristotle, perhaps some sort of warbler (Björn Bergenholtz in litt.); "99. MOTACILLA.   ...   Velia.  26. M. cærulea, ventre clunibusque rufescentibus.  Muscicapa cærulea, ventre rubro. Edw. av. 22. t. 22.  Habitat Surinami." (Linnaeus 1758) (Tangara).

SUBSPECIES

Opal-rumped Tanager (Opal-rumped)
SCI Name: Tangara velia [velia Group]
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.

Opal-rumped Tanager (Silver-breasted)
SCI Name: Tangara velia cyanomelas
cyanomelaena / cyanomelana / cyanomelas
Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; μελας melas, μελανος melanos, μελαινα melaina  dark, black.
● ex “Urraca morada” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 54 (Cyanocorax).
● ex “Fringilla caerulea, mento, gula, etc. nigris” of Koelreuter 1767 (syn. Dacnis cayana).
● ex “Promérops Namaquois” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 5 (Rhinopomastus).
● ex “Gobe Mouches Mantelé” of Levaillant 1805, pl. 151 (Trochocercus).
● ex “Black and Blue Hummingbird” of Bancroft 1769, and “Crimson-headed Blue Humming-bird” of Latham 1782 (unident.).