Violet Turaco / Musophaga violacea
Violet Turaco
SCI Name:
Protonym: Musophaga violacea Schrift.Ges.Nat.Freund.Berlin 9 p.18 pl.1
Taxonomy: Musophagiformes / Musophagidae / Musophaga
Taxonomy Code: viotur1
Type Locality: Accra, Gold Coast.
Author: Isert
Publish Year: 1788
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
MUSOPHAGA
(Musophagidae; Ϯ Violet Turaco M. violacea) Botanical genus Musa Linnaeus, 1753, plantain, banana < Arabic mauz banana; Gr. -φαγος
-phagos -eating < φαγειν phagein to eat; "Musophaga. Nomen "Musophaga" male quidem formatum, ut hybridum, significat: fructum Musæ paradisiacæ comedentem. Nomen vero "Musa", etsi hac significatione barbarum, in re botanica antiquitus acceptum, quare nomen quoque Musophaga, in Ornithologia diu usitatum, tolerandum est, etsi re vera; Musas, i.e. Deas artium comedentem significet." (Sundevall 1872); "Er gehört zu den Spechtartigen und ist den Geschlechtern der Crotophaga und Trogon verwandt. ... Die generischen Kennzeichen würden folgende seyn: Musafresser. Musophaga. ... No. 1. Der violette Musafresser. Musophaga violacea. .... Er lebt, so weit wie ich habe erfahren können, allein von den Früchten der Musa paradisiaca und Sapientum." (Isert 1788); "Musophaga Isert, Beob. und Entdeck, Naturk. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, 3, 1789, p. 17. Type, by monotypy, Musophaga violacea Isert." (Peters 1940, IV, 8).
Var. Musofaga, Musopaga.
Synon. Musovora, Phimus.
violacea
L. violaceus violet-coloured, violaceous < viola violet.
● ex “Grand Traquet des Phillippines” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 185, fig. 2 (syn. Agropsar philippensis).
● ex “Fringilla violacea, fronte subtusque flavissima” of Linnaeus 1746 (Euphonia).
● "76. ARDEA. ... violacea. 12. A. crista flava, corpore nigro-cærulescente, fascia temporali alba. Ardea stellaris cristata americana. Catesb. car. 1. p. 79. t. 79. Habitat in America septentrionali." (Linnaeus 1758) (Nyctanassa).
● ex “Hirondelle de la Louisiane” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 722 (syn. Progne subis).
● ex "Coccothraustes purpurea. Purple Gross-beak" of Catesby 1731 (Pyrrhulagra).
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)