Chestnut-throated Seedeater / Sporophila telasco
WBN 
Chestnut-throated Seedeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Pyrrhula telasco Voy.Coq. 1 pl.15 fig.3 1830 Voy.Coq.Zool. p.663
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: chtsee1
Type Locality: vicinity of Lima, Peru.
Author: Lesson
Publish Year: 1828
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.
telasco
Telasco, an Inca warrior in Jean François Marmontel’s novel ‘Les Incas, ou la destruction de l’Empire du Pérou’, 1777 (Sporophila).
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)
