Zoological Type Notes --R

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• Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck) 1815 Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. 3 p.552,747
  • Type by monotypy Rhynchotus fasciatus Spix, 1825 = Tinanums rufescens Temminck, 1815.
  • Type locality: "Brazil and Paraguay, ex Azara; Sao Paulo suggested as the type locality by Hellmayr, 1929, Publ.Field.Mus.Nat.Hist.., Zool. Ser. 12, p.479." Peters 1:36.

Ramphastos tucanus Linnaeus 1758 Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.103

• Type by subsequent designation, Ramphastos erythrorhynchus Gmelin = Ramphastos tucanus Linnaeus (Vigors, Zool.J. 2, 1826, p.471).
• Type locality (Peters representation): "South America, restricted to Surinam by Griscom and Greenway, antea p.430)." [apparently Griscom and Greenway, Bull.Mus.Comp.Zool., 81, 1937 p.427-430].
• Type locality: "Habitat in America meridionalis." (Linnaeus).

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Comments&Suggestions to Data Steward
Alan P. Peterson, M.D.
POB 1999
Walla Walla, WA 99362-0999

Last updated 2001.11.08

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Comments&Suggestions to Data Steward
Alan P. Peterson, M.D.
POB 1999
Walla Walla, WA 99362-0999

Last updated 2001.11.08