The Key to Scientific Names

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Curucujus

(Trogonidaesyn. Trogon Ϯ Black-tailed Trogon T. melanurus) Specific name Trogon curucui Linnaeus, 1766; "2. TROGON, L.   ...   b. Curucujus, Bp.  —  14. melanurus, Sw. (curucui, L.)  —  15. surucua, Vieill.  —  16. massena, Gould.  —  17. macrurus, Gould." (Bonaparte 1854); "Curucujus Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, 2, no. 8, 1854, p. 129. (Consp. Voluc. Zygodact., p. 14.) Type, by subsequent designation, Trogon melanurus Swainson. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 136.)" (Peters, 1945, V, p. 151); "Curucujus Bonaparte, 1854, Conspectus Volucrum Zygodactylorum, p. 14).  Type, by tautonymy, Trogon curucui L., i.e. Gmelin, 1788 (not of Linnaeus, 1766) = Trogon melanurus Swainson, 1837." (JAJ 2021).


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