Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow / Melozone cabanisi
Cabanis's Ground-Sparrow
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pyrgisoma cabanisi Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part II, Meeting of May 28, 1868 p. 324
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Passerellidae / Melozone
Taxonomy Code: pregrs2
Type Locality: San Jose, Costa Rica.
Author: Sclater & Salvin
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
MELOZONE
(Passerellidae; Ϯ Prevost's Ground Sparrow M. biarcuata) Gr. μηλον mēlon cheek; ζωνη zōnē girdle, belt. Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXIX, labelled Passerinae: Pyrrhulinae genuinae, includes a variety of heavy-billed birds and shows the distinctive face pattern of this finch; "XXIX. Melozone *) RCHB. Nat. Syst. t. LXXIX. Gürtelwange. Von voriger Gattung [Amadina] durch dünneren (ploceus- oder finkenartigen) Schnabel und seicht doppelbogig quer abgeschnittenen Schwanz unterschieden. — Hier nur möglicher Verwechselung wegen aufgeführt, gehört nämlich unter die Tanagrinen und ist um ein Jahr später von Mr. PUCHERAN und BONAPARTE consp. 486. n. 1012. Pyrgisoma genannt worden. 109. M. biarcuata (Pyrgita — NÉBOUX. Moineau à double croissant. Venus pl. 6. Melozone biarcuata RCHB. Pyrgisoma — PUCHERAN. BP. ... *) το μηλον, ου, die Wange, ἡ ζωνη, ης, Gürtel, Bogen." (Reichenbach 1862); "Melozone Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 79 [, fig. 10]. Type, by subsequent designation (Sharpe, 1888, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 12, p. 731), Pyrgita biarcuata Prévost and Des Murs." (Paynter in Peters 1970, XIII, 180).
Var. Meloxone, Molozone.
Synon. Kieneria, Melanzona, Meloxene, Pyrgisoma.
cabanidis / cabanisi
Jean Louis Cabanis (1816-1906) German ornithologist, founding editor of Journal für Ornithologie 1853 (Basileuterus, subsp. Colibri thalassinus, subsp. Cnemotriccus fuscatus, subsp. Dendrocopos major, Emberiza, Knipolegus, Lanius, subsp. Lonchura punctulata (ex Oxycerca jagori Cabanis, 1872), Melozone, Microspingus, Phyllastrephus, subsp. Piaya cayana, Pseudonigrita, subsp. Rhinopomastus minor, Synallaxis, subsp. Syndactyla rufosuperciliata, Tangara (ex Calliste sclateri Cabanis, 1866), subsp. Tauraco livingstonii) (see cabanisii).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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lowercase: species and subspecies
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‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
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ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)