Plum-throated Cotinga / Cotinga maynana
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Plum-throated Cotinga
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Protonym: [Ampelis] Maynana Syst.Nat.ed.12 ed.12 p.298
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cotingidae / Cotinga
Taxonomy Code: pltcot1
Type Locality: Maynas, Peru.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1766
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
COTINGA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-breasted Cotinga C. cotinga) Tupí name Catingá bright forest (bird), for the colourful cotingas; "Cotinga, nom qu'on donne en Amérique à quelques especes de ce genre ... Cotinga superne splendide cœrulea, inferne purpuro-violacea; remigibus, rectricibusque nigris; oris exterioribus remigum minorum & rectricum cœruleis" (Brisson 1760): based on "Purple-breasted Blue Manakin" of Edwards 1758; "Cotinga Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 2, p. 339. Type, by tautonymy, "Cotinga" Brisson = Ampelis cotinga Linnaeus." (Snow in Peters, 1979, VIII, p. 297).
Synon. Hylocosmia, Orbignesius.
cotinga
Tupí name Catingá bright forest (bird), for the cotingas.
● ex “Cotinga” of Brisson 1760 (Cotinga).
maynana / maynanensis / maynanus
Mayna, an Amerindian people of north-western Amazonia (cf. Maynas or Mainas, former name for a region of western Amazonia stretching from eastern Ecuador through Peru and into Brazil; cf. Maynas Province, Loreto Region, northern Peru).
● ex “Cotinga des Maynas” of Brisson 1760 (Cotinga).
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)
