Black-masked Finch

SCI Name:  Coryphaspiza melanotis
Protonym:  Emberizoides melanotis Pl.Col. livr.19 pl.114 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Coryphaspiza
Taxonomy Code:  blmfin1
Type Locality:  Paraguay and Brazil; type from Ipanema, Sao Paulo, Brazil, fide Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 614.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1822
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

CORYPHASPIZA
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Black-masked Finch C. melanotis) Gr. κορυφος koruphos  bird mentioned by Hesychius, but in ornithology always identified with the lark; σπιζα spiza  finch  < σπιζω spizō  to chirp; "CORYPHASPIZA, n.  Leptonyx ^a, Swains. (1837).  C. melanotis, Swains., 2 Cent. and a Quart., p. 314. fig. 62 (head and claw).   ...   ^a Employed in Mammalogy [Leptonyx Gray, 1837, in Phocidae]." (G. Gray 1840); "Coryphaspiza G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 47. New name for Leptonyx Swainson, 1837, preoccupied. Type, by original designation, Leptonyx melanotis Swainson = Emberizoides melanotis Temminck." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 209).
Synon. Leptonyx.

MELANOTIS
(Mimidae; Ϯ Blue Mockingbird M. caerulescens) Specific name Turdus melanotis Temminck, 1830 (< Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -ωτις -ōtis  -eared  < ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear); "573. Melanotis, Bp. (Mimus, p. Boie. - Orpheus, p. Sw. - Turdus, p. Gr.)   Mexico.  1.  TURDUS melanotis, Temm. nec Gould. (Orpheus caerulescens, Sw. - Melanotis caerulescens, Bp.) Pl. col. 498.  ex Mexico." (Bonaparte 1850); "Melanotis Bonaparte, 1850, Consp. Gen. Av., 1, p. 276. Type, by monotypy, Turdus melanotis Temminck = Orpheus caerulescens Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 441).

melanotis
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -ωτις -ōtis  -eared  < ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear.

SUBSPECIES

Black-masked Finch (marajoara)
SCI Name: Coryphaspiza melanotis marajoara
marajoara / marajoensis
Ilha Marajó, Pará, Brazil.

Black-masked Finch (melanotis)
SCI Name: Coryphaspiza melanotis melanotis
MELANOTIS
(Mimidae; Ϯ Blue Mockingbird M. caerulescens) Specific name Turdus melanotis Temminck, 1830 (< Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; -ωτις -ōtis  -eared  < ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear); "573. Melanotis, Bp. (Mimus, p. Boie. - Orpheus, p. Sw. - Turdus, p. Gr.)   Mexico.  1.  TURDUS melanotis, Temm. nec Gould. (Orpheus caerulescens, Sw. - Melanotis caerulescens, Bp.) Pl. col. 498.  ex Mexico." (Bonaparte 1850); "Melanotis Bonaparte, 1850, Consp. Gen. Av., 1, p. 276. Type, by monotypy, Turdus melanotis Temminck = Orpheus caerulescens Swainson." (Davis & Miller in Peters 1960, IX, 441).