The yellow-green grosbeak (Caryothraustes canadensis) is a species of grosbeak in the family Cardinalidae.
Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow-green grosbeak in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Cayenne in French Guiana. He used the French name Le Gros-bec de Cayenne and the Latin name Coccothraustes Cayanensis.[2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[3] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.[3] One of these was the yellow-green grosbeak. Linnaeus included a terse description, used the binomial nameLoxia canadensis and cited Brisson's work.[4] Linnaeus mistakenly claimed that the species occurred in Canada rather than Cayenne and introduced the specific namecanadensis for Canada where the bird does not occur.[5] This species is now placed in the genusCaryothraustes that was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1850.[6] There are four subspecies.[7]
^ abAllen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678.
^Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
