Great Pampa-Finch / Embernagra platensis
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Great Pampa-Finch
SCI Name:
Protonym: Emberiza platensis Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.886
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Thraupidae / Embernagra
Taxonomy Code: grpfin1
Type Locality: Buenos Aires.
Author: Gmelin, JF
Publish Year: 1789
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
EMBERNAGRA
(Thraupidae; Ϯ Great Pampafinch E. platensis) Portmanteau of genera Emberiza Linnaeus, 1758, bunting, and Tanagra Linnaeus, 1764, tanager; "VI.e Sous-genre. EMBERNAGRE; Embernagra. Les Tangaras-Bruants. Bec alongé, conique, à arête presque droite, pointue, à bords renflés, bordés; narines ouvertes, rondes; ailes courtes, dépassant à peine le croupion; queue longue, inégale, comme étagée, à rectrices terminées en pointe; tarses longs, forts, robustes. 58.º TANGARA FABIALATU; Tanagra fabialatu, Mus. de Paris. De la Plata. 59.º TANGARA DES BUISSONS; Tanagra dumetorum, Mus. de Paris. ... Du Brésil." (Lesson 1831); "Embernagra Lesson, 1831, Traité d'Ornith., p. 465. Type, by virtual monotypy, Tanagra dumetorum Lesson = Emberiza platensis Gmelin." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 131).
Synon. Limnospiza.
platensis
Río de la Plata, Argentina. The Spanish Vice-royalty of Río de la Plata was roughly equivalent to modern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
● Buenos Aires; ex “Roitelet de Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 730 (Cistothorus)
● Buenos Aires; ex “Emberise à cinq couleurs” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Plata Bunting” of Latham 1783 (Embernagra).
● Isla La Plata, Manaví, Ecuador (subsp. Mimus longicaudatus).
SUBSPECIES
Great Pampa-Finch (Western)
SCI Name: Embernagra platensis olivascens
olivascens
Mod. L. olivascens, olivascentis somewhat olive < L. oliva olive.
Great Pampa-Finch (Eastern)
SCI Name: Embernagra platensis platensis
platensis
Río de la Plata, Argentina. The Spanish Vice-royalty of Río de la Plata was roughly equivalent to modern Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
● Buenos Aires; ex “Roitelet de Buenos-Ayres” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 730 (Cistothorus)
● Buenos Aires; ex “Emberise à cinq couleurs” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Plata Bunting” of Latham 1783 (Embernagra).
● Isla La Plata, Manaví, Ecuador (subsp. Mimus longicaudatus).
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)
