Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater / Sporophila torqueola
Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater
SCI Name:
Protonym: Spermophila torqueola Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.495 ydP
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Sporophila
Taxonomy Code: whcsee2
Type Locality: Mexico; type from Ciudad Mexico, fide van Rossem, 1934, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77, p. 421.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1850
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.
torqueola
Med. L. torqueola necklace < L. torques collar, necklace < torquere to twist.
SUBSPECIES
Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater (atriceps)
SCI Name: Sporophila torqueola atriceps
atriceps
L. ater black; -ceps -capped, -headed < caput, capitis head.
Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater (torqueola)
SCI Name: Sporophila torqueola torqueola
torqueola
Med. L. torqueola necklace < L. torques collar, necklace < torquere to twist.
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)