Short-tailed Parrot / Graydidascalus brachyurus
Short-tailed Parrot
SCI Name:
Protonym: Psittacus brachyurus NovaActaAcad.Caes.Leop.Carol. 10 p.72
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Graydidascalus
Taxonomy Code: shtpar2
Type Locality: Cayenne, error = upper Amazonia.
Author: Temminck & Kuhl
Publish Year: 1820
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
GRAYDIDASCALUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Short-tailed Parrot G. brachyurus) Portmanteau of surname Gray (after John Edward Gray (1800-1875) English ornithologist) and Gr. διδασκαλος didaskalos teacher; "Psittacus seniloides (non selinoides) et Ps. cobaltinus sont des Psittaculiens du genre Pionus, genre dont je connais bien huit espéces, et dont je saisis cette occasion de donner une petite monographie, après en avoir distrait le Ps. viridissimus de Spix. De cette espèce isolée, qui ne se lie avec aucune autre, je forme un genre que je dédie à l'éminent zoologiste du Musée britannique, et que je nomme, pour qu'on ne puisse confondre, GRAYDIDASCALUS, Bp. GR. VIRIDISSIMUS, Bp. (Psittacus viridissimus, Spix. — Pionus viridissimus, Auct.) ex Peru." (Bonaparte 1854); "Graydidascalus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 147. Type, by original designation and monotypy, Psittacus viridissimus "Spix" i.e. Swainson = Psittacus brachyurus Kuhl." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 213).
Synon. Pachynus.
brachyurus
Gr. βραχυς brakhus short; -ουρος -ouros -tailed < ουρα oura tail.
Brachyurus
Gr. βραχυς brakhus short; ουρα ourα tail.
• (Conopophagidae; syn. Conopophaga † Black-cheeked Gnateater C. melanops) "Brachyurus THUNBERG, Kongl. Vetenskaps Akad. Handl., 1821, Part 2, p. 371 (types Brachyurus gularis and B. ruber = Conopophaga m. melanops [VIEILLOT])." (Hellmayr, 1924, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. III, 25) (see next sub-entry). Laurent Raty in litt. considers Hellmayr's statement of multiple types (latterly treated as the male and female of the same species) as invalid.
• (Pittidae; syn. Pitta † Indian Pitta P. brachyura) "Denne fogel finnes tecknad uti Museo Carlsoniano, Tom. 4 och Tab. 84 under namn af Turdus triostegus. ... Jag har ansett det kunna få namn af BRACHYURUS och sin plats ibland Passeres, näst efter Turdus. Character Generis blifver då Rostrum capite brevius, rectum. Mandibula superior conico-trigona apice incurvo, longior, intra apicem utrinque excisa; inferior brevior, recta. Cauda alis (non longior) æqualis, rotundata. ... Förutan BRACHYURUS triostegus ifrån Ön Ceilon, har Brasilien i sednare tider skänkt osstvenne andra arter ... BRACHYURUS gularis. B. supra olivaceus pileo rubro; temporibus atris; subtus fuscus gula crissoque albis. ... BRACHYURUS ruber. B. supra fuscus maculis dorsalibus testaceis; subtus ferrugineis." (Thunberg 1821); "Brachyurus Thunberg, 1821, Kongl. Vetenskaps Akad. Handling., II, p. 371. Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, p. 26), Turdus triostegus Sparrman, 1789 = Corvus brachyurus Linnaeus, 1766." (Laurent Raty in litt.) (JAJ 2020).
Var. Brachiurus.
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)