The Key to Scientific Names
- TANYGNATHUS
(Psittaculidae; Ϯ Great-billed Parrot T. megalorynchos) Gr. τανυω tanuō to stretch out < τεινω teinō to stretch; γναθος gnathos jaw; "Genus XXII. Tanygnathus *) Wagl. Schnabelsittich. Rostrum Sittaces, maxilla maxima, admodum arcuata, acutissima; cauda longa, latiuscula, cuneata (oculi perquam parvi). Reliqua Sittaces. Australiae (an quoque Asiae?) incolae; vitae ratio ignota. Species: 1. T. macrorhynchus. — 2. T. marginatus. ... *Tανυω extendo, γναθος maxilla." (Wagler 1832); "Tanygnathus Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Acad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 501. Type, by subsequent designation, T. macrorhynchus (L.) Wagl., Pl. enlum., no. 713 = Psittacus megalorynchos Boddaert. (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 52.)" (Peters, 1937, III, p. 238).
Synon. Erythrostomus.
