Ankober Serin / Crithagra ankoberensis

Ankober Serin / Crithagra ankoberensis

Ankober Serin

SCI Name:  Crithagra ankoberensis
Protonym:  Serinus ankoberensis Ibis 121 p.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ankser2
Type Locality:  
Author:  
Publish Year:  1979
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CRITHAGRA
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Brimstone Canary C. sulphurata) Gr. κριθη krithē  barley; αγρα agra  hunting  < αγρεω agreō  to hunt; "CRITHAGRA.  Rostrum breve, sub-conicum, crassum, integrum; culmine arcuato; tomio curvato.  Alæ subelongatæ; remigibus 1ma, 2da, 3tia, et 4ta æqualibus, longissimis.  Cauda mediocris, subfurcata. ...  Types. Lox. sulphurata, flaviventris. Lath.  Africa only?" (Swainson 1827); "Crithagra Swainson, 1827, Zool. Journ., 3, p. 348. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 348), Loxia sulphurata Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 208).
Var. ChrithagraGrithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.

ankoberensis
Ankober, Shoa Province, Ethiopia.