Buffy-fronted Seedeater / Sporophila frontalis
Buffy-fronted Seedeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Callirhynchus frontalis Nouv.Arch.Mus.Hist.Nat.Bull. 5 p.15 pl.1 fig.1
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: bufsee1
Type Locality: Cayenne; error, vicinity of Rio de Janeiro suggested by Hellmayr, 1938, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 11, p. 173.
Author: Verreaux, J
Publish Year: 1869
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
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.
frontale / frontalis
L. frontalis fronted, frontal < frontalia or frontale frontlet < frons, frontis forehead, brow (ref. distinctive, contrastingly coloured forehead patch, usually black or red).
● ex “Faucon Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 28 (syn. Crinifer piscator).
● Front Range, Rocky Mts., Colorado, USA (syn. Otus flammeolus).
● ex “Perruche Ara à Bandeau Rouge” of Levaillant 1801 (Pyrrhura).
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)