Chestnut-bellied Seedeater / Sporophila castaneiventris
WBN 
Chestnut-bellied Seedeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Sporophila castaneiventris ReisenBrit.-Guiana[Schomburgk] 3 p.679
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: chbsee1
Type Locality: Cumaka, coast of Guyana (British Guiana).
Author: Cabanis
Publish Year: 1849
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.
castaneiventer / castaneiventris
L. castaneus chestnut-brown < castanea chestnut < Gr. καστανον kastanon chestnut; venter, ventris belly.
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)
