Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus Scientific name definitions
Revee Jones and Carole S. Griffiths
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated September 9, 2011
Text last updated September 9, 2011
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Catalan | tucà becverdós |
Czech | tukan středoamerický |
Dutch | Zwavelborsttoekan |
English | Keel-billed Toucan |
English (United States) | Keel-billed Toucan |
French | Toucan à carène |
French (France) | Toucan à carène |
German | Fischertukan |
Icelandic | Bogatúkani |
Japanese | サンショクキムネオオハシ |
Norwegian | regnbuetukan |
Polish | tukan tęczodzioby |
Russian | Радужный тукан |
Serbian | Sumporasti tukan |
Slovak | tukan žltohrdlý |
Spanish | Tucán Piquiverde |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | Tucán Pico Iris |
Spanish (Honduras) | Tucán Pico Arcoiris |
Spanish (Mexico) | Tucán Pico Canoa |
Spanish (Panama) | Tucán Pico Iris |
Spanish (Spain) | Tucán piquiverde |
Spanish (Venezuela) | Piapoco Pico Verde |
Swedish | svaveltukan |
Turkish | Karina Gagalı Tukan |
Ukrainian | Тукан жовтогорлий |
Ramphastos sulfuratus Lesson, 1830
PROTONYM:
Ramphastos sulfuratus
Lesson, 1830. Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux livr.3, p.173.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Mexico.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- RAMPHASTOS
- sulfuratus
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Introduction
The Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) occurs in tropical lowland evergreen and secondary forests from southern Mexico, where it is the only large toucan, south through Central America to northern Colombia and extreme northwestern Venezuela. In a large part of its range, it overlaps with the "Chestnut-mandibled Toucan" (Ramphastos ambiguus swainsonii). Its bizarrely patterned green, orange, red, and blue bill is diagnostic. It feeds largely on fruit, but also consumes arthropods and small vertebrates.