Purple-throated Cotinga / Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema
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Purple-throated Cotinga
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Protonym: Cotinga porphyrolaema Rev.Mag.Zool.(2), 4 p.226
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Cotingidae / Porphyrolaema
Taxonomy Code: putcot1
Type Locality: Sarayacu, Rio Ucayali, Peru.
Author: Deville & Sclater
Publish Year: 1852
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PORPHYROLAEMA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-throated Cotinga P. porphyrolaema) Specific name Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville & P. Sclater, 1852; "a. Cotingeæ. ... 53. PORPHYROLÆMA, Bp. — 116. phygas, Bp. (Cotinga porphyrolæma, Sclater.)" (Bonaparte 1854); "Porphyrolaema Bonaparte, 1854, Ateneo Italiano, 2 (11), p. 315 (= Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 5). Type, by monotypy, Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville and Sclater." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 296).
porphyrolaema
Gr. πορφυρα porphura purple; λαιμος laimos throat.
PORPHYROLAEMA
(Cotingidae; Ϯ Purple-throated Cotinga P. porphyrolaema) Specific name Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville & P. Sclater, 1852; "a. Cotingeæ. ... 53. PORPHYROLÆMA, Bp. — 116. phygas, Bp. (Cotinga porphyrolæma, Sclater.)" (Bonaparte 1854); "Porphyrolaema Bonaparte, 1854, Ateneo Italiano, 2 (11), p. 315 (= Consp. Voluc. Anisod., p. 5). Type, by monotypy, Cotinga porphyrolaema Deville and Sclater." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 296).
porphyrolaema
Gr. πορφυρα porphura purple; λαιμος laimos throat.
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)
