Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater / Sporophila torqueola

Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater / Sporophila torqueola

Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater

SCI Name:  Sporophila torqueola
Protonym:  Spermophila torqueola Consp.Gen.Av. 1 p.495 ydP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thraupidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whcsee2
Type Locality:  Mexico; type from Ciudad Mexico, fide van Rossem, 1934, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 77, p. 421.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1850
IUCN Status:  

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.  ...  1σπορος 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. AmazonicaCallyrhynchus, 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.