Black-billed Seed-Finch / Sporophila atrirostris
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Black-billed Seed-Finch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Oryzoborus atrirostris Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.136
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: bbsfin1
Type Locality: Moyobamba, San Martin, Peru.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1878
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SPOROPHILA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Temminck's Seedeater S. falcirostris) Gr. σπορος sporos seed < σπειρω speirō to sow; φιλος philos lover; "62. Gen. Sporophila 1) Cab. Pyrrhula Tem. part. Spermophila Swains. 1827. ... 1) σπορος sperma." (Cabanis 1844); "Sporophila Cabanis, 1844, Archiv f. Naturg., 10 (1), p. 291. New name for Spermophila Swainson, 1827, preoccupied by Spermophila Richardson, 1825." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 133) (see Spermophila).
Var. Sporofila, Sporoptula, Sporophilus.
Synon. Amazonica, Callyrhynchus, Dolospingus, Drepanorhynchus, Gyrinorhynchus, Microphila, Neorhynchus, Oryzoborus, Spermophila, Spermophilopsis.
atrirostris
L. ater black; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
SUBSPECIES
Black-billed Seed-Finch (atrirostris)
SCI Name: Sporophila atrirostris atrirostris
atrirostris
L. ater black; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
Black-billed Seed-Finch (gigantirostris)
SCI Name: Sporophila atrirostris gigantirostris
gigantirostris
L. giganteus gigantic < gigas, gigantis giant < Gr. γιγας gigas, γιγαντος gigantos giant; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: 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)
