Plum-throated cotinga
{{short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Plum-throated cotinga
| image = Plum throated cotinga.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Cotinga
| species = maynana
| authority = (Linnaeus, 1766)
| synonyms = Ampelis maynana {{small|Linnaeus, 1766}}
| range_map = Cotinga maynana map.svg
| image2 = Plum-throated Cotinga (Cotinga maynana) (16781121739).jpg
}}
The plum-throated cotinga (Cotinga maynana) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the plum-throated cotinga in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Maynas Province, Peru. He used the French name Le cotinga des Mayas and the Latin Cotinga Maynanensis.{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés | volume=2 | language=French, Latin | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | pages=341–344, Plate 34 fig 2 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36011645 }} The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.{{cite journal |last=Allen | first=J.A. | author-link=Joel Asaph Allen | year=1910 | title=Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History |volume=28 | pages=317–335 | hdl=2246/678 }} 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. One of these was the plum-throated cotinga. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Ampelis maynana and cited Brisson's work.{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1766 | title=Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=12th | volume=1, Part 1 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | place=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | page=298 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946494 }} This species is now placed in the genus Cotinga that was introduced by Brisson in 1760.{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés | language=French, Latin | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | at=Vol. 1 p. 32; Vol. 2 p. 339 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36011643 }} The plum-throated cotinga is monotypic.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers | work=World Bird List Version 8.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=1 July 2018 }}
References
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External links
- [http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Cotinga_maynana.html Image at ADW]
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Category:Birds of the Amazon rainforest
Category:Birds of the Colombian Amazon
Category:Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon