Yellow-bellied Tanager

SCI Name:  Ixothraupis xanthogastra
Protonym:  Calliste xanthogastra Contrib.Orn.[Jardine] 1 p.23
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Ixothraupis
Taxonomy Code:  yebtan2
Type Locality:  Rio Negro ; Rio Negro, Peru, suggested by Zimmer, 1943, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1245, p. 5 .
Author:  Sclater, PL
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).

xanthogaster / xanthogastra / xanthogastrus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.

SUBSPECIES

Yellow-bellied Tanager (xanthogastra)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis xanthogastra xanthogastra
xanthogaster / xanthogastra / xanthogastrus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos  yellow; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.

Yellow-bellied Tanager (phelpsi)
SCI Name: Ixothraupis xanthogastra phelpsi
phelpsi
William Henry Phelps, Sr. (1875-1965) US/Venezuelan entrepreneur, business magnate, ornithologist, collector, founder of Colección Ornitológica Phelps, Caracas (subsp. Asthenes wyatti, syn. Atlapetes nigrifrons, subsp. Grallaria excelsa, subsp. Oxyruncus cristatus, subsp. Rallus longirostris, syn. Sittasomus griseicapillus griseus, Streptoprocne, subsp. Tangara xanthogastra, subsp. Xenops rutilus).