Salvadori's Fig-Parrot

SCI Name:  Psittaculirostris salvadorii
Protonym:  Cyclopsittacus Salvadorii Bull.Hebdo.Assoc.Sci.France(2), 1 p.172
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Psittaculirostris
Taxonomy Code:  safpar1
Type Locality:  North coast of New Guinea between lat. 136° 30'' and 137° E.
Author:  Oustalet
Publish Year:  1880
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PSITTACULIROSTRIS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Large Fig Parrot P. desmarestii) Genus Psittacula Cuvier, 1800, parakeet; L. -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak (i.e. large-billed); "Les PSITTACULIROSTRES.  Bec gros, très-robuste, voûté; la queue courte, pointue." (Lesson 1831); "Psittacula (Psittaculirostris) Desmaresti, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 204." (J. Gray & G. Gray 1859); "Psittaculirostris J. E. and G. R. Gray, Cat. Mamm. Bds. New Guinea, Brit. Mus., 1859, p. 42. Type, by monotypy, Psittacula desmarestii Lesson 1830 = Psittacus desmarestii Desmarest 1826." (Peters 1937, III, 163).
Var. Psittacirostris.
Synon. Cruopsitta.

salvadori / salvadoriana / salvadorianus / salvadorii
Adelardo Tommaso Conte Salvadori Paleotti (1835-1923) Italian doctor, participated in Garibaldi’s second expedition to Sicily 1860, ornithologist at Museum of Zoology, Turin University 1863-1923 (syn. Acrochordopus burmeisteri, subsp. Aegotheles albertisii, syn. Amazilia cyanura, subsp. Argya caudata, syn. Bradypterus cinnamomeus, subsp. Caligavis subfrenata, subsp. Caprimulgus macrurus, syn. Casuarius casuarius, subsp. Chalcites crassirostris, syn. Chauna torquata, syn. Corvus orru, syn. Crateroscelis robusta, Cryptospiza, subsp. Dicaeum maugei, Ducula, subsp. Edolisoma morio, subsp. Eremomela icteropygialis, subsp. Eudynamys orientalis, syn. Gerygone sulphurea, subsp. Leptocoma aspasia, syn. Lichmera squamata, syn. Loriculus philippensis apicalis, subsp. Lorius lory, subsp. Lybius undatus, subsp. Merops philippinus, syn. Micropsitta pusio beccarii, syn. Nectarinia johnstoni nyikensis, syn. Nothocercus julius, subsp. Nothura darwinii, Onychognathus, subsp. Pachycephala hyperythra (ex Pachycephala sharpii Salvadori, 1896), syn. Papualestes cyanus subcyaneus, subsp. Paradisaea raggiana, syn. Pitohui kirhocephalus, syn. Platycercus icterotis, syn. Podiceps major, syn. Probosciger aterrimus goliath, syn. Psittacula derbiana, Psittaculirostris, subsp. Ptilinopus viridis, syn. Pycnonotus erythropthalmos, Salpornis, subsp. Sphecotheres vieilloti, syn. Spilornis cheela asturinus, subsp. Tanygnathus lucionensis, subsp. Tanysiptera sylvia, syn. Tregellasia leucops melanogenys, subsp. Treron calvus, subsp. Zenaida aurita, Zosterops) (see Soter).