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Trogon Rufus
The Amazonian black-throated trogon (''Trogon rufus'') is a bird in the trogon family, Trogonidae. Although it is also called "yellow-bellied trogon" it is not the only trogon with a yellow belly. It breeds in lowlands of Amazonia. Taxonomy The Amazonian black-throated trogon was Species description, formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the other trogons in the genus ''Trogon (genus), Trogon'' and coined the binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Trogon rufus''. Gmelin based his description on the "Couroucou à queue rousse de Cayenne" that had been described and illustrated in 1779 by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Comte de Buffon in his ''Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux ''. Buffon's specimen was a female with brown upperparts that had been collected in Cayenne. The specific epithet ''rufus'' is Latin for "red" or "ruddy" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Black-throated Trogon
The Atlantic black-throated trogon (''Trogon chrysochloros'') is a bird in the family Trogonidae, the trogons and quetzals. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. Taxonomy and systematics What is now the Atlantic black-throated trogon was long treated as one of six subspecies of the then "black-throated trogon" (''Trogon rufus'' ''sensu lato''). Starting in 2022, the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the International Ornithological Congress, and the Clements taxonomy split the black-throated trogon into four species, one of them being the Atlantic black-throated trogon.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 27 July 2024. "Treat ''Trogon rufus'' (Black-throated Trogon) as consisting of five species, including one newly described (Proposal 921: 24 July 2022)" ''in'' A classification of the bird species of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |