Black-eared Seedeater / Crithagra mennelli
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Black-eared Seedeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Poliospiza mennelli Bull.Br.Orn.Club 21 p.62
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Crithagra
Taxonomy Code: blesee1
Type Locality: Tjoko''s Kraal, Shangani River, [Southern] Rhodesia.
Author: Chubb, EC
Publish Year: 1908
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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. Chrithagra, Grithagra.
Synon. Bolbospiza, Buserinus, Dendrospiza, Lormarinsia, Menellia, Microserinus, Neospiza, Ochrospiza, Phaeospiza, Poliospiza, Psammospiza, Pseudochloroptila, Serinops, Spodiospina, Tephrospiza.
mennelli
Frederic Philip Mennell (1880-1966) British mineralogist, consultant geologist, founding (1901-1908) Curator of Rhodesia Mus., Southern Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, politician (Crithagra).
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)
