Diamond Firetail / Stagonopleura guttata
Diamond Firetail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Loxia guttata Mus.Lever. 6 p.47
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Estrildidae / Stagonopleura
Taxonomy Code: diafir1
Type Locality: Australia [= Sydney, New South Wales] .
Author: Shaw
Publish Year: 1796
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
STAGONOPLEURA
(Estrildidae; Ϯ Diamond Firetail S. guttata) Gr. σταγων stagōn, σταγονος stagonos spot; πλευρα pleura side, flank; Reichenbach's 1850, plate LXXV, labelled Passerinae: Frigillinae genuinae, illustrates a variety of finches, buntings, and sparrows, but does not highlight the spotted flanks of this waxbill. "Loxia fusca, pectore nigro, rostro uropygioque rubris, lateribus corporis nigris albo maculatis" (Shaw 1796); "Gen. STAGONOPLEURA Reichb. 1850. **) Tropfen-Amadine. Sporothlastes Bonap. nec Cab. ... **) Wir glauben diese, leider ohne Angabe eines Typus aufgestellte, Reichenbachsche Gattung richtiger zu deuten als Bonaparte (welcher obenein Steganopleura ! schreibt) wenn wir die Loxia guttata Shaw als Typus annehmen." (Cabanis 1853); "XI. Stagonopleura RCHB. *) Av. Syst. nat. t. LXXV ... Tropfenfink. ... St. guttata (Fring. — SHAW Mus. Leverian. iv.) RCHB. ... *) ἡ σταγων, ονος, der Tropfen, ἡ πλευρα, ας, die Seite." (Reichenbach 1862); "Stagonopleura Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 75. Type, by subsequent designation (Cabanis, 1851 [= 1853], Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 172), Loxia guttata Shaw." (Mayr in Peters 1968, XIV, 353) (see Steganopleura).
Synon. Tavistocka, Zonaeginthus.
guttata
L. guttatus spotted, speckled < gutta drop, spot.
● ex “Héoro-taire moucheté” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (unident., ?Zosteropidae, ?Meliphagidae).
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)