Avibase: Pitta moluccensis (Blue-winged Pitta)

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Blue-winged Pitta

Pitta moluccensis (Müller, PLS 1776)

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This table contains the extended synonymy (excluding common names) for the taxonomic concept Pitta moluccensis. This includes all variations of the name (e.g. emendations, recombination, published spelling errors), as well as any known nomenclatural synonyms found in Avibase (e.g. all species, subspecies, subsumed subspecies, junior synonmyms and other taxon names now placed in synonymy). Vernacular synonyms can also be found on the main summary page.

Original description

Scientific:   Pitta moluccensis
Citation:   (Müller, PLS 1776)
Protonym:   Turdus Moluccensis
Reference:   Linné vollst. Natursyst. Suppl. Reg. Bd.
Publication:   https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/218386#page/164/mode/1up
Type locality:   Moluccas; error, emended to Tenasserim, by Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. India, 7, p. 296; further emended to Malacca by Deignan, 1963, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 226, p. 98.

Synonyms

Avibase name	Synonym	Synonym type	Protonym	Citation	Reference
Pitta moluccensis	Turdus Moluccensis	protonym (original spelling)	Turdus Moluccensis	Müller, PLS 1776	Linné vollst. Natursyst. Suppl. Reg. Bd. p.144
Pitta moluccensis	Pitta moluccensis	currently in use	Turdus Moluccensis	Müller, PLS 1776	Linné vollst. Natursyst. Suppl. Reg. Bd. p.144
Pitta moluccensis	Pitta moluccensis moluccensis	spelling variant (e.g. recombination, emendation)	Turdus Moluccensis	Müller, PLS 1776	Linné vollst. Natursyst. Suppl. Reg. Bd. p.144
Pitta moluccensis	Turdus macrourus fasciatus	junior synonym	Turdus macrourus fasciatus	Boddaert, P 1783	Table Planches Enlum. D'Aubenton p.16
Pitta moluccensis	Corvus brachyurus madagascariensis	junior synonym	Corvus madagascariensis	Gmelin, JF 1788	Systema Naturae ed. 13, vol. 1, part 1 ed.13, Tomus 1 p.376
Pitta moluccensis	Pitta cyanoptera	junior synonym	Pitta cyanoptera	Temminck, CJ 1823	Nouv. Recueil Pl. Color. Ois. livr.37, vol.2 pl.218
Pitta moluccensis	Pitta fastosa	junior synonym	Pitta fastosa	McGregor, RC 1907	Philipp. J. Sci. 2, section A p.286
Pitta moluccensis	Pitta moluccensis lepta	junior synonym	Pitta moluccensis lepta	Oberholser, HC 1912	Smithson. Misc. Coll. 60, no.7 p.8
Pitta moluccensis	Cervinipitta kimbleyensis	junior synonym	Cervinipitta kimbleyensis	Mathews, GM 1942	Journ.Roy.Soc Western Australia 27 p.8