Red-headed Parrotfinch

SCI Name:  Erythrura cyaneovirens
Protonym:  Geospiza cyaneovirens U.S.Expl.Exped. 8 p.117
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Erythrura
Taxonomy Code:  rehpar1
Type Locality:  Upolu [= Samoa].
Author:  Peale
Publish Year:  1848
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ERYTHRURA
(Estrildidae; † Pin-tailed Parrotfinch E. prasina) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; ουρα oura  tail; excepting E. hyperythra and E. kleinschmidti, all male parrotfinches have bright red rumps and tails; "Erythura, Sw.  Bill thick, lengthened, resembling that of Euplectes. Tail very long, acuminated.   E. viridis. Pl. Col. 96." (Swainson 1837); "Erythrura Swainson, 1837, Class. Birds, 2, p. 280 (originally misspelled Erythura, but universally emended).  Type, by monotypy, Erythrura viridis Temminck, 1835, Pl. Col., livr. 96 = Loxia prasina Sparrman." (Mayr in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 362). 
Var. Erythura (original spelling).   
Synon. Acalanthe, Acmura, Amblynura, Chloromunia, Chlorura, Erythrina, Lobiospiza, Lobospingus, Poedela, Reichenowia, Rhamphostruthus, Trichroa.

erythrura / erythruros / erythrurus
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; -ουρος -ouros -tailed  < ουρα oura  tail.

cyaneovirens
L. cyaneus  dark-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy; virens, virentis  green  < virere  to be green.

SUBSPECIES

Red-headed Parrotfinch (cyaneovirens)
SCI Name: Erythrura cyaneovirens cyaneovirens
cyaneovirens
L. cyaneus  dark-blue  < Gr. κυανεος kuaneos  dark-blue, glossy; virens, virentis  green  < virere  to be green.

Red-headed Parrotfinch (gaughrani)
SCI Name: Erythrura cyaneovirens gaughrani
gaughrani
“This new subspecies is named for Dr. James Gaughran of Stanford University” (DuPont 1972) (subsp. Erythrura cyaneovirens).