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Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet
Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri] (= Aulacorhynchus prasinus) (Gould, J 1833)
The emerald toucanet or northern emerald toucanet is a species of near-passerine bird in the family Ramphastidae occurring in mountainous regions of Mexico and Central America. Several taxa formerly included within this species have now been re-classified into separate species of their own. Source: Wikipedia
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Piciformes
Family:
Ramphastidae
Genus:
Aulacorhynchus
Scientific:
Aulacorhynchus prasinus
Classification
Order:Piciformes
Family:
Ramphastidae
Genus:
Aulacorhynchus
Scientific:
Aulacorhynchus prasinus
Original description
Citation:
(Gould, J 1833)
Reference:
Monogr. Ramphastid.
Pt1 pl.29,text
Protonym:
Pteroglossus prasinus
Type locality:
Mexico = Valle Real fide Hellmayr, Nov. Zool, 20, 1913, p. 255.
Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/135881#page/31/mode/1up
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
20DB26690611FD72
Avibase ID:
avibase-20DB2669
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/20DB2669
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 554277
Geographic range:
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus: humid to semi-humid forest in the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific slopes of Mexico from Veracruz, San Luis Potosi and in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Guerrero eastward to eastern Oaxaca, including Sierra de los Tuxtlas, and in central-east Mexico from easternmost Oaxaca and Chiapas eastward across interior Quintana Roo and Belize to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and western Nicaragua; also in the mountains of northwestern Costa Rica eastward to easternmost Panama and adjacent Colombia in Cerro Tacarcuna
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus prasinus: southeastern Mexico (Veracruz, adjacent San Luis Potosí, and Oaxaca)
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus warneri: mountains of southeastern Mexico (Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in southern Veracruz)
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus virescens: southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, western El Salvador, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus volcanius: eastern El Salvador (Volcán San Miguel)
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus caeruleogularis: highlands of Costa Rica and western and central Panama (east to western Panamá)
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus wagleri: Sierra Madre del Sur of southwestern Mexico (Guerrero and southwestern Oaxaca)
- Aulacorhynchus prasinus cognatus: mountains of eastern Panama (Darién) and adjacent Colombia
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Source: Clements checklist
Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet
French:
Toucanet émeraude, T. à gorge bleue, T. du Darién ou T. de Wagler
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 58th suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 59th suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 60th suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 61st suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 61st suppl. and addendum): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 62nd suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 63rd suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 64th suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 65th suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| American Ornithologists' Society 7th edition (incl. 66th suppl.): Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri]) |
| Avilist 2025: Northern Emerald Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2021: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2022: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2023: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2024: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2025: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2017: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2018: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| Clements, version 2019: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2017: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2018: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2019: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2021: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2022: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2023: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2024: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| eBird version 2025: Northern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2: Northern Emerald Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus prasinus) [version 3] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species (alt)
This taxon is a subspecies of
Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, wagleri, cognatus, lautus, albivitta or atrogularis]
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Afrikaans: Noordelike Smaragtoekantjie
Bulgarian: Северен смарагдов тукан
Catalan: Tucanet maragda
Czech: arassari smaragdový
Danish: Smaragdtukanet
German: Laucharassari
English: Emerald, Blue-throated, Nelson's or Wagler's Toucanet, Northern Emerald Toucanet, Northern Emerald-Toucanet
English (Avilist): Northern Emerald-Toucanet
English, HBW: emerald toucanet sp.
English (IOC): Emerald/Blue-throated/Wagler's/Violet-throated Toucanet
English (United States): Northern Emerald-Toucanet
Esperanto: smeralda tukaneto, Smeraldotukano
Spanish: Tucanete Esmeralda
Spanish (Colombia): Tucancito esmeralda
Spanish (Costa Rica): Tucancillo Verde, Tuncancillo verde
Spanish (Ecuador): Tucancillo Esmeralda Norteño, Tucanete Esmeralda
Spanish (Spain): Tucanete Esmeralda
Spanish (Honduras): Tucanillo verde
Spanish (Mexico): Tucancillo Verde, Tucancillo Verde Mesoamericano
Spanish (Panama): Tucancillo Verde Norteño
Spanish (Peru): Tucancillo Esmeralda
Spanish (Venezuela): Pico de Frasco
Estonian: smaragdtuukan
Finnish: smaragditukaani
French: Toucanet émeraude, Toucanet émeraude (prasinus), Toucanet émeraude, T. à gorge bleue, T. du Darién ou T. de Wagler
French (Guyane): Toucanet émeraude
Irish: Túcáinín smaragadach
Croatian: šarenorepi tukan
Hungarian: hagymazöld tukán
Italian: Tucanetto smeraldino
Japanese (romaji): kibashimidorichuuhashi
Japanese: キバシミドリチュウハシ
Scientific: Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, caeruleogularis, cognatus or wagleri], Aulacorhynchus prasinus, Aulacorhynchus prasinus prasinus, Pteroglossus prasinus
Lithuanian: Žaliasis tukanetas
Dutch: Smaragd-arassari
Norwegian Nynorsk: Smaragdtukan
Norwegian: smaragdtukan
Polish: pieprzojad szmaragdowy
Portuguese: tucaninho-de-nariz-amarelo
Portuguese (Brazil): tucaninho-de-nariz-amarelo
Portuguese (Portugal): tucaninho-esmeralda
Russian: Изумрудный туканет
Slovak: tukaník smaragdový
Serbian: Severni smaragdni tukanet
Swedish: nordlig smaragdtukanett
Turkish: Zümrüt tukanet
Ukrainian: Тукан оливковоголовий
Chinese: 绿巨嘴鸟
Chinese (Traditional): 綠寶小鵎鵼
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