Ramphastos

This genus contains a some species of birds that are called toucans. This was founded by Linnaeus in 1758. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae&oldid=1164645505https://archive.org/details/animalkingdomorz00linn/page/612/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater At the time it belonged to the order of Picaes, also called Pies.https://archive.org/details/animalkingdomorz00linn/page/418/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater Today the order is called Piciformes.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piciformes&oldid=1174357275 They were considered to be related to other birds like parrots, hornbills, and crows, which have now been seperated from the order. They also have been seperated into different genuses, as they used to include all toucans and toucan-like near relatives: aracaris and toucanets. These all belong to the order Ramphastidae, which was named after this genus. You can find those species listed in the links there, under their modern genuses. Currently this genus contains the living species: R.ambiguus, R.brevis, R.citreolaemus,R.dicolorus, R.sulfuratus, R.toco, R.tucanus, and R.vitellinus. Despite people frantically mentioning that, as rainforest birds, they are constantly threatened with extinction, there appears to be no recently extinct toucans.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_extinct_bird_species_since_1500&oldid=1186878888 However, there are many descriptions of toucans by Linnaeus that, even if we account for blues and greens being a shade of black, they still don't fit any toucan species, so I've wondered about that. Ramphastos comes from an Ancient Greek word meaning a hooked knife or beak. This name makes some sense for toucans, but it might have been better for a raptor.https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Ramphastos&oldid=75400251 Like all scientific names it has been fixed up through New Latin, so it's not the exact same word.
Toucans of ramphastos make up the most famous toucans, those being taco toucans and keel-billed toucans. They have been known since the Spanish came back to Europe after exploring South America and told them about the wildlife there and brought samples. Thus they have been known to Europe since sometime in the 1500s. An Andre Thevet had brought things from his trip and informed the France court, which later led to Mary, Queen of Scots, to embroider one. The image is dirty and it could be any one of the several black-and-yellow-bellied species in Ramphastos.https://www.jstor.org/stable/26321954http://www.marie-stuart.co.uk/embroidery.htm
== References ==
Category:Ramphastos
Category:Toucans
Category:Ramphastidae