Golden-sided euphonia explained

The golden-sided euphonia (Euphonia cayennensis) is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae.It is found in northern Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and eastern Venezuela.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

Taxonomy

The golden-sided euphonia was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it in the genus Tanagra and coined the binomial name Tanagra cayennensis.^{[1] [2]} Gmelin's account was based on "Le tangara noir de Cayenne" that had been described in 1760 by the French ornithologist Mathurin Brisson from a specimen that had been collected in French Guiana.^[3] The golden-sided euphonia is now placed in the genus Euphonia that was introduced in 1806 by the French zoologist Anselme Desmarest. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Gmelin, Johann Friedrich . Johann Friedrich Gmelin. 1789 . Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis . 13th . 1, Part 2 . Latin . Lipsiae [Leipzig] . Georg. Emanuel. Beer . 894 .
2. Book: Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1970 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 13 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 355 .
3. Book: Brisson, Mathurin Jacques . Mathurin Jacques Brisson . 1760 . Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés . 3 . French, Latin . 29, No. 17, Plate 2 Fig. 1 . Paris . Jean-Baptiste Bauche . The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
4. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . July 2023 . Finches, euphonias . IOC World Bird List Version 13.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 21 September 2023 .