Rufous-throated Tanager

SCI Name:  Ixothraupis rufigula
Protonym:  T.[anagrella] Rufigula Compt.Rend. 32 p.77
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Ixothraupis
Taxonomy Code:  ruttan1
Type Locality:  Ecuador ; type from Calacali, [twelve miles] north of Quito, fide P. L. Sclater, 1857, Monogr. Birds Tanagrine Genus Calliste, p. 28.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

Ixothraupis
(syn. Tangara Ϯ Spotted Tanager T. punctata) Gr. ιξος ixos  mistletoe; θταυπις thraupis  unknown small bird, perhaps some sort of finch. In ornithology thraupis signifies tanager. "C'est ici que doit trouver place notre groupe IXOTHRAUPIS.   1.[sic] IXOTHRAUPIS PUNCTATA, Bp.   ...   12. I. GUTTULATA, Bp.   ...   *13. I. CHRYSOGASTER, Bp.   ...   *14. I. PUSILLA, Bp." (Bonaparte 1851); "Ixothraupis Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., (2), 3, p. 143, 1851—type, by subs. desig. (Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., p. 73, 1855), Tanagra punctata Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 81).

rufigula
L. rufus red; gula throat.
● ex “Péristère à gorge rousse” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1845 (Gallicolumba).
● ex “Petit Merle brun à gorge rousse de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 644, fig. 2 (Gymnopithys).