Red-fronted Lorikeet

SCI Name:  Charmosyna rubronotata
Protonym:  Coriphilus rubronotatus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.165
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Charmosyna
Taxonomy Code:  reflor2
Type Locality:  Salawati and the northwestern extremity of New Guinea.
Author:  Wallace
Publish Year:  1862
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHARMOSYNA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Papuan Lorikeet C. papou) Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together; "Genus X.  Charmosyna ***) Wagl.  Sittichlori.   Rostrum, lingua et pedes Trichoglossorum; cauda longula, cuneata, rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis.   Australiae incola.  Vitae ratio ignota.  Species: 1. Ch. papuensis.   ...   ***) Xαρμοσυνος  amoenus. — Avis generis naturaliter connectit psittacos praecedentes longicaudatos [Trichoglossus] cum sequentibus [Eos], qui rubri sunt et caudam conico-acuminatam habent." (Wagler 1832); "Charmosyna Wagler, Abh. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 493. Type, by monotypy, Ch. papuensis = Psittacus papuensis Gmelin = Psittacus papou Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 158).
Var. Charmosina.
Synon. Charminetta, Charmosynopsis, Hypocharmosyna, Pyrrhodes.

charmosyna
Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together.

rubronotata / rubronotatus
L. ruber, rubra  red; notatus  marked  < notare  to mark  < nota  mark  < noscere  to know.

SUBSPECIES

Red-fronted Lorikeet (rubronotata)
SCI Name: Charmosyna rubronotata rubronotata
rubronotata / rubronotatus
L. ruber, rubra  red; notatus  marked  < notare  to mark  < nota  mark  < noscere  to know.

Red-fronted Lorikeet (kordoana)
SCI Name: Charmosyna rubronotata kordoana
kordensis / kordoana / kordoanus
Kordo, Koredo or Korido, names for the western section of Biak I., Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.