Pale Rosefinch

SCI Name:  Carpodacus stoliczkae
Protonym:  Propasser stoliczkae Stray Feathers Vol. 2, N° 6 p. 523
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Carpodacus
Taxonomy Code:  palros3
Type Locality:  Chiklik, above Kokyar, western Kunlun, Chinese Turkestan.
Author:  Hume
Publish Year:  1874
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CARPODACUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ Pallas's Rosefinch C. roseus) Gr. καρπος karpos  fruit; δακος dakos  biter  < δακνω daknō  to bite; "6. Pyrrhula rosea, longicauda, erythrina.   ...   6. Karminfink. Carpodacus *).   E[ntwickelung]. Wie bei Coccothraustes, Chloreus und Pyrrhula.   Ch[arakter]. Hänflinge mit dickem, gewölbtem Schnabel.   L[ebensart]. Sie leben nur von Beeren und Samereien, und haben wenig natürlichen Gesang.   ...   *) Von καρπος, Frucht und δακνω, beißen." (Kaup 1829); "Carpodacus Kaup, 1829, Skizz. Entw. Nat. Syst., 1, p. 161. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1842, List Genera Birds, ed. 2, appen., p. 11), Fringilla rosea Pallas." (Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 267).   
Var. Carpodagus, Cardopagus.   
Synon. Chaunoproctus, Erythrina, Erythrothorax, Haematospiza, Kozlowia, Papa, Phoenicospiza, Propasser, Propyrrhula, Pyrrhospiza, Pyrrhulinota, Rubicilla, Uragus.

stoliczkae
Dr Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838-1874) Czech zoologist, geologist, palaeontologist, collector in the Himalayas 1864-1866, died on the Second Yarkand Mission (Carpodacus, syn. Certhia nipalensis, syn. Cettia cetti albiventris, subsp. Leptopoecile sophiae, syn. Linaria flavirostris, subsp. Passer ammodendri, subsp. Remiz coronatus, syn. Streptopelia decaocto).

SUBSPECIES

Pale Rosefinch (salimalii)
SCI Name: Carpodacus stoliczkae salimalii
salimali / salimalii
Dr Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (1896-1987) Indian ornithologist (Apus, subsp. Carpodacus stoliczkae, syn. Chalcophaps indica, subsp. Cisticola juncidis, subsp. Perdicula argoondah, subsp. Ploceus megarhynchus, subsp. Pomatorhinus schisticeps, syn. Regulus regulus himalayensis, Zoothera, subsp. Zosterops palpebrosus).

Pale Rosefinch (stoliczkae)
SCI Name: Carpodacus stoliczkae stoliczkae
stoliczkae
Dr Ferdinand Stoliczka (1838-1874) Czech zoologist, geologist, palaeontologist, collector in the Himalayas 1864-1866, died on the Second Yarkand Mission (Carpodacus, syn. Certhia nipalensis, syn. Cettia cetti albiventris, subsp. Leptopoecile sophiae, syn. Linaria flavirostris, subsp. Passer ammodendri, subsp. Remiz coronatus, syn. Streptopelia decaocto).

Pale Rosefinch (beicki)
SCI Name: Carpodacus stoliczkae beicki
beicki / beickianus
Walter Beick (1883-1933) Swedish/Estonian ornithologist, collector, explorer in Tibet and China 1926-1933 (subsp. Aegolius funereus, subsp. Alaudala rufescens, syn. Calliope calliope, subsp. Carpodacus stoliczkae, syn. Cinclus cinclus przewalskii, syn. Dendrocopos major stresemanni, syn. Phoenicurus schisticeps, syn. Prunella rubeculoides, syn. Rhopophilus pekinensis albosuperciliaris).