Yellow-green grosbeak explained

The yellow-green grosbeak (Caryothraustes canadensis) is a species of grosbeak in the family Cardinalidae.

Taxonomy

In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow-green grosbeak in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Cayenne in French Guiana. He used the French name Le Gros-bec de Cayenne and the Latin name Coccothraustes Cayanensis.^[1] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.^[2] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.^[2] One of these was the yellow-green grosbeak. Linnaeus included a terse description, used the binomial name Loxia canadensis and cited Brisson's work.^[3] Linnaeus mistakenly claimed that the species occurred in Canada rather than Cayenne and introduced the specific name canadensis for Canada where the bird does not occur.^[4] This species is now placed in the genus Caryothraustes that was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850.^[5] There are four subspecies.^[6]

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.

Notes and References

1. Book: Brisson, Mathurin Jacques . Mathurin Jacques Brisson . 1760 . Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés . 3 . fr, la . Paris . Jean-Baptiste Bauche . 229–230, Plate 11 fig 3 . The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
2. Allen . J.A. . Joel Asaph Allen . 1910 . Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 28 . 317–335 . 2246/678 .
3. Book: Linnaeus, Carl . Carl Linnaeus . 1766 . Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis . 12th . 1, Part 1 . Laurentii Salvii . Holmiae (Stockholm) . la . 304 .
4. Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2018 . Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 29 April 2018 .
5. Book: Reichenbach, Ludwig . Ludwig Reichenbach . 1850 . Avium Systema Naturale. Das natürliche System der Vögel . Dresden . Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte . Plate 78 .
6. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 1 May 2018 .