Genus Geoffroyus Bonaparte, 1850

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• Geoffroyus Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Nouvelles espèces ornithologiques. Première partie: Perroquets. Lugduni. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 30: 131-139 [published Feb.] [137] [first published as nom. nud. with spelling Geoffroys in Agassiz, L. 1842. Nomina Systematica Generum Avium. In, Nomenclator Zoologicus, continens Nomina Systematica Generum Animalium tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum disposita, adjectis auctoribus, libris, in quibus reperiuntur, anno editionis, etymologia et familiis, ad quas pertenent, in singulis classibus. Fasc. II. Soloduri : Jent & Gassmann. x 82, 25 pp. (32); also as incorrect subsequent spellings, Geoffroius by Sclater, P.L. 1858. On the zoology of New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 2: 149–170 (165), and Geoffroiius by Wallace, A.R. 1859. Correspondence. Ibis 1 1: 111–116 (112); not preoccupied as junior homonym by Geofroia Thunberg, 1787 (Coleoptera), see ICZN Art. 56(b); first prepared for publication in Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus Generum Avium. Tom. I Pt 1. Lugduni, Batavorum : E.J. Brill 1–272 pp. (6), but not appearing until June 1850 according to Zimmer, J.T. 1926. Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library. Field Museum of Natural History Publications, Zoological Series 16: 1–364 (Pt 1, Publ. 239), 365–706 (Pt 2, Publ. 240); Rossem, A.J. van 1946. Dates for volume 1 of Bonaparte's 'Conspectus Generum Avium'. Auk 63: 243; Browning, M.R. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1991. Clarifications and corrections of the dates of issue of some publications containing descriptions of North American birds. Arch. Nat. Hist. 18: 381–405; cf. Mathews, G.M. 1917. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 6 pt 2 pp. 105–216 pls 283–290 [6 Feb. 1917 Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (151–152); based by reference on Psittacus geoffroyi Kuhl, 1820; authorship of type species conventionally attributed to Bechstein, see Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp.; Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp.; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia Pt 1 Non-passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp., but although based in part on the same material as Psittacus geoffroyi Bechstein, 1811, Kuhl published Psittacus geoffroyi independently without reference to Bechstein, thus making it a junior primary homonym, see Kuhl, H. 1820. Conspectus Psittacorum. Cum specierum definitionibus, novarum descriptionibus, synonymis et circa patriam singularum naturalem adversariis, adjecto indice museorum, ubi earum artificiosae exuviae servantur. Nova Acta Phys. Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol. 10: 1–104 pls I–III [For publication date Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.] (85)].

  Type species:

   Psittacus geoffroyi Kuhl, 1820 by absolute tautonymy (=Psittacus geoffroyi Bechstein, 1811).
• Geoffroy Gray, G.R. 1855. Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds contained in the British Museum. London : British Museum 192 pp. [88] [unjustified emendation of Geoffroyus Bonaparte, 1850, attributed to Gray, G.R. 1840. A List of the Genera of Birds, with an indication of the typical species of each genus. London : R. & J.E. Taylor viii 80 pp. [published before Apr.]].
• Rhodocephalus Reichenow, A. 1881. Conspectus Psittacorum. Systematische Uebersicht aller bekannten Papageienarten. Journal of Ornithology 29: 1-49, 113-177, 225-289, 337-398 [247] [nom. nov. for Geoffroyus Bonaparte, 1850].
• Pseudopsittacus MacGillivray, W. 1913. Description of a new parrot. The Emu 13: 105-106 [105].

  Type species:

   Pseudopsittacus maclennani MacGillivray, 1913 by monotypy (=Geoffroyus geoffroyi (Bechstein, 1811)).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. [233]

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PSITTACIDAE: Psittacus fieldii Swainson, 1825

PSITTACIDAE: Psittacus geoffroyi Kuhl, 1820

PSITTACIDAE: Psittacus personatus Shaw, 1812

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea and adjacent islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Ils, Moluccas, islands in Banda and Arafura Seas, and Lesser Sundas west to Lombok.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Distribution References

General References

Rothschild, W. & Hartert, E. 1901. Notes on Papuan birds. Novitates Zoologicae 8: 55-88 [82-86] (synonymy)

Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls. (synonymy and for circumscription of genus)

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