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Southern Emerald Toucanet

Aulacorhynchus albivitta (Boissonneau, A 1840)

The white-throated toucanet is a near-passerine bird found in the Andes from western Venezuela, through Colombia to northern Ecuador. Source: Wikipedia




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Classification
Order:
  Piciformes
Family:
  Ramphastidae
Genus:
   Aulacorhynchus
Scientific:
  Aulacorhynchus albivitta


Original description

Citation:
  (Boissonneau, A 1840)

Reference:
   Rev. Zool. Soc. Cuvierienne 3 p.70

Protonym:
  Pteroglossus albivitta

Type locality:
  Bogota.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48713#page/80/mode/1up


Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  8E12984DF5D16ABA

Avibase ID:
  avibase-8E12984D

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/8E12984D


Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 685729

Geographic range:

  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta: montane cloud forest in the Andes of western Venezuela, including Sierra de Perijá, southward along the central and eastern Andes of Colombia to far northern Peru, north of the Río Marañón; also in Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and west of the Andes southward to southern Colombia, mostly north of the Río Patia in Cauca; in Peru south of the Río Marañón southeastward along the Andes to central Bolivia in westernmost Santa Cruz, including lowlands locally in Ucayali and Madre de Dios eastward to adjacent Brazil in Acre and adjacent Rondônia and northernmost Bolivian (Pando)
  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta albivitta: eastern and central Andes of Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and western Venezuela
  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta griseigularis: northern end of western Andes and west slope of central Andes of Colombia
  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta phaeolaemus: subtropical western Andes of Colombia
  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta lautus: Santa Marta Mountains (northeastern Colombia)
  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta atrogularis: east slope of the Andes from central Peru to Bolivia (south to western Santa Cruz)
  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta dimidiatus: foothills of the Andes and adjacent western Amazonia in southeastern Peru and northern Bolivia
  • Aulacorhynchus albivitta cyanolaemus: subtropical Andes of southeastern Ecuador and northern Peru
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English:
Southern Emerald Toucanet
Afrikaans:
Suidelike Smaragtoekantjie
Bulgarian:
Южен смарагдов тукан
Catalan:
tucanet gorjagrís
Czech:
arassari bělohrdlý
Danish:
Amazontukanet
German:
Weißkehlarassari
Esperanto:
Nordanda tukaneto
Spanish:
Tucanete Gorjiblanco
Spanish (Spain):
Tucanete gorjiblanco
Estonian:
ida-smaragdtuukan
French:
Toucanet à gorge blanche
Croatian:
kolumbijski tukan
Japanese (romaji):
minamikibashimidorichuuhashi
Japanese:
ミナミキバシミドリチュウハシ
Dutch:
Andesarassari
Norwegian Nynorsk:
Andestukan
Norwegian:
andestukan
Polish:
pieprzojad zielony
Portuguese (Brazil):
araçari-de-garganta-branca
Portuguese (Portugal):
tucaninho-de-garganta-branca
Russian:
Андский туканет
Slovak:
tukaník andský
Serbian:
Južni smaragdni tukanet
Swedish:
sydlig smaragdtukanett
Turkish:
And tukaneti
Ukrainian:
Тукан білогорлий


Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Southern Emerald Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Northern Andean, Grey-throated or Peruvian Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [albivitta, griseigularis, lautus or atrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Northern Andean, Grey-throated or Peruvian Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [albivitta, griseigularis, lautus or atrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025):
Southern Emerald Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 1]
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Northern Andean, Grey-throated or Peruvian Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [albivitta, griseigularis, lautus or atrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Northern Andean, Grey-throated or Peruvian Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [albivitta, griseigularis, lautus or atrogularis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Northern Andean, Grey-throated or Peruvian Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus [albivitta, griseigularis, lautus or atrogularis])
Avilist 2025:
Southern Emerald Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2021:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2022:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2023:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2024:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2025:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2017:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2018:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
Clements, version 2019:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2017:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2018:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2019:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2021:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2022:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2023:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2024:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
eBird version 2025:
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta) [version 3]
South American Classification Committee (24/08/2021):
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta)
South American Classification Committee (24/07/2022):
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta)
South American Classification Committee (28/09/2023):
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta)
South American Classification Committee (27/07/2024):
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta)
South American Classification Committee (31/07/2025):
Southern Emerald-Toucanet ( Aulacorhynchus albivitta)

Taxonomic status:

Species status: full species

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Aulacorhynchus [prasinus, lautus, albivitta or atrogularis] (sensu lato) by some authors

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Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.


Afrikaans: Suidelike Smaragtoekantjie
Bulgarian: Южен смарагдов тукан
Catalan: tucanet gorjagrís
Czech: arassari bělohrdlý
Danish: Amazontukanet
German: Weißkehlarassari
English: Northern Andean, Grey-throated or Peruvian Toucanet, Southern Emerald Toucanet, Southern Emerald-Toucanet
English (Avilist): Southern Emerald-Toucanet
English, HBW: Greyish-throated/Black-throated/Black-billed Toucanet
English (IOC): White-throated/Black-throated Toucanet
English (United States): Southern Emerald-Toucanet
Esperanto: blankagorĝa tukaneto, Nordanda tukaneto
Spanish: Tucanete Gorgiblanco, Tucanete Gorjiblanco
Spanish (Ecuador): Tucancillo Esmeralda Sureño, Tucanete Esmeralda
Spanish (Spain): Tucanete gorgiblanco, Tucanete gorjiblanco
Spanish (Mexico): Tucancillo Verde Sudamericano
Spanish (Panama): Tucancillo Verde Sur, Tucancillo Verde Sureño
Spanish (Peru): Tucancillo Esmeralda
Spanish (Venezuela): Pico de Frasco Gargantiblanco
Estonian: ida-smaragdtuukan
French: Toucanet à gorge blanche, Toucanet à gorge blanche, T. à gorge grise, T. de Santa Marta ou T. à gorge noire, Toucanet à gorge blanche, T. à gorge grise, T. des Santa Marta ou T. à gorge noire, Toucanet émeraude (des Andes)
French (Guyane): Toucanet à gorge blanche
Croatian: kolumbijski tukan
Japanese (romaji): minamikibashimidorichuuhashi
Japanese: ミナミキバシミドリチュウハシ
Scientific: Aulacorhynchus [albivitta, griseigularis, lautus or atrogularis], Aulacorhynchus albivitta, Aulacorhynchus prasinus albivitta, Pteroglossus albivitta
Dutch: Andesarassari
Norwegian Nynorsk: Andestukan
Norwegian: andestukan
Polish: pieprzojad zielony
Portuguese (Brazil): araçari-de-garganta-branca
Portuguese (Portugal): Araçari-de-garganta-branca, tucaninho-de-garganta-branca
Russian: Андский туканет
Slovak: tukaník andský
Serbian: Južni smaragdni tukanet
Swedish: sydlig smaragdtukanett
Turkish: And tukaneti
Ukrainian: Тукан білогорлий

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